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From:
Michael Faraday
To:
William Jackson Hooker
Date:
11 November 1862
Source of text:
RBGK MS English Letters, A-K, 1862/5 # 288
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Faraday Project
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From:
Michael Faraday
To:
William Jackson Hooker
Date:
14 November 1862
Source of text:
RBGK MS English Letters, A-K, 1862/5 # 289
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Faraday Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Dr Thomas Anderson
Date:
16 November 1862
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/1 f.47-48, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
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Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
24 [Nov 1862]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 173, 279b; Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Hooker letters 2: 46 JDH/2/1/2)
Summary:
Sends Asa Gray letter: "nearly as mad as ever in our English eyes".
Bates’s paper is admirable. The act of segregation of varieties into species was never so plainly brought forth.
CD is a little sorry that his present work is leading him to believe rather more in the direct action of physical conditions. Regrets it because it lessens the glory of natural selection and is so confoundedly doubtful.
JDH laid too much stress on importance of crossing with respect to origin of species; but certainly it is important in keeping forms stable.
If only Owen could be excluded from Council of Royal Society Falconer would be good to put in. CD must come down to London to see what he can do.
Falconer’s article in Journal of the Geological Society [18 (1862): 348–69] shows him coming round on permanence of species, but he does not like natural selection.
Sends Lythrum salicaria diagram.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
George Bentham
Date:
26 November 1862
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Kew correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1858-70, ff. 84-5
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Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Charles Ligar
Date:
29 November 1862
Source of text:
62/10881, unit 45, VPRS 44/P inward registered and unregistered correspondence , VA 538 Department of Crown Lands and Survey, Public Record Office, Victoria
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Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project