From:
Erasmus Alvey Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 Dec [1862?]
Source of text:
DAR 105 (ser. 2): 12
Summary:
Describes a box which has come for CD.
Asks for John Price’s address.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[14 Dec 1862]
Source of text:
DAR 101: 83–4
Summary:
On Asa Gray’s letter; has written why he avoids alluding to the war.
Has read Max Müller [see 3752] – last part unphilosophical.
On CD’s pigeon example, long-beaked and short-beaked pigeons must be either sterile or not inter se. There is "no such thing as Equality – hence no such thing as chance and Nat. Sel. is the sword of Damocles hanging over your head if you make a slip in your premisses."
Has read note on Lythrum sent several weeks ago. Its consequences are of most prolific order to CD’s doctrine.
Kew has no wild gooseberries.
JDH praises the Saturday Review reply [14 (1862): 589] to the Duke of Argyll’s bitter review of Orchids ["The supernatural", Edinburgh Rev. 116 (1862): 378–97].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Andrew Crombie Ramsay
Date:
14 Dec [1862]
Source of text:
DAR 261.9: 5 (EH 88205978)
Summary:
Thanks ACR for Catalogue; pleased some of his volcanic specimens have been included.
Will review T. F. Jamieson’s paper on Glen Roy. Knows the facts and knows too well that he [CD] is everlastingly smashed.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project