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DCP-LETT-4645

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26[–8] Oct 1864
Source of text:
DAR 101: 247–53
Summary:

Comments at length on Ramsay’s glacial paper ["On the erosion of valleys and lakes", Philos. Mag. 4th ser. 28 (1864): 293–311]. Prefers it to Tyndall, but unconvinced about sea action and unwilling to grant that ice power sculptures the totality of landscape.

Unwilling to support Wallace for Royal Medal.

Herbert Spencer’s noisy vacuity.

Garden varieties that are constant and infertile with parent deserve to be called species.

Scott ineligible to be Linnean Society associate because he is not in England.

George Busk’s incoherent talk on Gibraltar cave fossils.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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FVM-64-10-26d

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Edward Cardwell
Date:
26 October 1864
Source of text:
National Archives, London, CO 309/70, Original Correspondence Victoria, 1864, vol. 5, Office and Independent, ff. 471-2
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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FVM-64-10-26

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Johan Lange
Date:
26 October 1864
Source of text:
Lange Papers, Botanisk Centralbibliotek, Copenhagen
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

Herschel10546

From:
Frederick W. Holland
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[26 October 1864]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.423
Summary:

Sir Henry James does not wish to be connected with the new expedition to Sinai until the work of the previous one has been cleared. Will approach the Royal Geographical Society with his scheme. [H. S.] Palmer is the man to go on this expedition.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel14722

From:
George Griffith
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[26 October 1864]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0921.1; Reel 1083
Summary:

Resolution reappointing JH and others to Balloon Committee for further experiments.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-4646

From:
Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 Oct 1864
Source of text:
DAR 166: 39
Summary:

Thanks CD for notes concerning the development of his ideas about the origin of species. Says August Schleicher and Carl Gegenbaur also interested.

Names new supporters of CD’s theory, including Max Schultze, Rudolf Leuckart, and Alexander Braun. Zoologists have been more interested than botanists.

He is writing a general work on the relationships among animals [Generelle Morphologie der Organismen (1866)].

Comments on Fritz Müller’s Für Darwin [1864].

Gegenbaur is revising his Grundzüge der vergleichenden Anatomie [2d ed. (1870)] to accord with evolution.

Thanks CD for copy of book on balanids [Living Cirripedia, vol. 2].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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WCP5323

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 October 1864
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library: DAR 101: 247-53
Summary:

Regarding Darwin suggestion to nominate ARW for The Royal Society's Gold Medal.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

JHC1460

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Miles Joseph Berkeley
Date:
26 October 1864
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/2 f.261, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC236

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Reverend John Gunn
Date:
26 October 1864
Source of text:
JDH/2/22/2 f.65, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

JDH writes to his uncle, Reverend John Gunn, regarding recently published pamphlets on geology. Papers mentioned are written by: Sir Andrew Crombie Ramsay, John Tyndall & Charles Lyell [CL], plus a note by Hugh Falconer [HF] in ANNALS OF NATURAL HISTORY. JDH does not agree with HF's overzealous critique of a mistake by CL. Comments on the character of HF: a Scotsman JDH knows from India. JDH thinks the geology of the Suffolk valleys should be examined, suspects they are tidal not fluvial. JDH will send birds to Mr Smythe when Gunn provides the address.

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Hooker Project
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FVM-64-10-26a

From:
the Society of the Friends of Nature, Moscow
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
26 October 1864
Source of text:
RB MSS M197, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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