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From:
George Thwaites
To:
William Hooker
Date:
8 December 1864
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Directors correspondence, vol. 57, f. 229
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Frederick Wollaston Hutton
Date:
8 Dec [1864]
Source of text:
Canterbury Museum, Christchurch, New Zealand
Summary:
Regrets he has no notes on periods when albatrosses were abundant off Cape Horn.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Thomas Henry Huxley
To:
George Gabriel Stokes, 1st baronet
Date:
8 Dec 1864
Source of text:
CUL (George Stokes papers, Add. 7656 H1385)
Summary:
THH never imagined that "we" referred to anyone but the [Royal] Society Council. Still objects to inclusion of the passage, since "an agreement to say nothing" [about the Origin] does not justify comment on it by one party to the agreement.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Victor Naudin
Date:
8 Dec [1864]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.303)
Summary:
Thanks CVN for reference to the Comptes Rendus [Académie Française].
Mentions CVN’s work on Cucurbitaceae and notes that he (CD) has quoted extensively from it in Variation.
Hopes to send paper on Lythrum [Collected papers 2: 106–31] soon.
Mentions exchange of photographs.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Gabriel Stokes, 1st baronet
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
8 Dec 1864
Source of text:
DAR 99: 87–8
Summary:
Corrects a minor error in his last letter.
Urges THH to return proofs of his paper to Royal Society. Some authors are more ready to come down on reviewers and secretary for delay than to get on with their own proofs.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
