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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
10 January 1864
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library: DAR 115: 216
Summary:

References ARW's letter to Darwin of 2 Jan 1864 about Herbert Spencer.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-4389

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
10 and 12 Jan 1864
Source of text:
DAR 115: 216
Summary:

CD very ill.

Suspects F. Boott’s widow is illegitimate granddaughter of Erasmus Darwin.

CD, like JDH, has speculated that agrarian weeds have become adapted to cultivated ground. Suggests comparison with country of origin.

Wallace’s praise of Herbert Spencer’s Social statics baffles CD.

[Letter completed by E. A. Darwin.]

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-4384

From:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Jan 1864
Source of text:
DAR 170: 44
Summary:

JL’s article on Huxley’s "Lectures [to working men]".

Planning a volume of essays [Prehistoric times (1865)].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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