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DCP-LETT-8106

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
15 [Dec 1871]
Source of text:
DAR 94: 213
Summary:

Will be in London until 21st. Would rejoice if JDH could come to lunch during their stay.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8108

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[17 Dec 1871]
Source of text:
DAR 103: 98
Summary:

Cannot come to lunch to meet Sir Henry Holland. Holland may have seen Robert Lowe [Lord Sherbrooke] already. Will CD let him know his views?

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DCP-LETT-8109

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[18 Dec 1871]
Source of text:
DAR 94: 214–15
Summary:

H. Holland keeps strongly to the opinion that Kew be under the Treasury, and will recommend this to Lowe.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8117

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 Dec 1871
Source of text:
DAR 103: 99–100
Summary:

Philosophical Club dinner.

Lyell contradicts W. B. Carpenter on current in Straits of Gibraltar.

James Orton’s report on fossil shells found by L. Agassiz 2000 miles up the Amazon. Their identification disposes of the glacial hypothesis.

No news yet from Gladstone on Ayrton affair.

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