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DCP-LETT-1190

From:
William Buckland
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 July [1848]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 4
Summary:

Will forward recommendation of Edward Cresy to Edwin Chadwick, but thinks there will be no further need of engineers.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1193

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 July [1848]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (India letters 1847–51: 94 JDH/1/10)
Summary:

Brian Hodgson reading CD’s Journal of researches with delight.

Forwarding breeding pamphlets.

JDH recommends P. S. Pallas on degeneration.

CD’s facts on sex in barnacles startling.

Hugh Falconer’s health.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

JHC35

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24-7-[1848]
Source of text:
JDH/1/10 f.94, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

JDH delighted by letter from [Charles] Darwin [CD]. [Brian Houghton] Hodgson reading CD’s journal & has some pamphlets on breeds etc for CD from the ASIATIC SOCIETY JOURNAL. Wonders if CD knows of Pallas’ memoir on degeneration of animals. JDH in very good health. [Hugh] Falconer has been unwell but is much better & is trying to get his English time to count towards his length of service. JDH wishes the Darwin’s were all well. Finds CD’s fact about male & female barnacles startling. The Surveyor General [Colonel Waugh] has announced measurements of one of the Himalayan mountains [Kanchenjunga] which make it the highest in the world.

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