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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Aug 1874
Source of text:
DAR 103: 214–18
Summary:

Describes his work on Nepenthes.

Cephalotus is a beast.

His address is a history of Dionaea, Sarracenia, and Drosera.

Thiselton-Dyer has helped enormously except with the observations; but his health is so poor that JDH thinks he is "evidently cut out for a Literate not a working botanist".

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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[29 Aug 1874]
Source of text:
DAR 103: 219–20
Summary:

Lady Dorothy Nevill is CD’s best chance for Dionaea.

Reports on Belfast meeting of BAAS. Lubbock’s lecture went off admirably. Huxley’s was the magnum opus.

Encloses letter from Mrs Barber on protective coloration of animals.

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