From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 Mar 1874
Source of text:
DAR 103: 195–7
Summary:
"Half an answer" to CD’s query on visit of Sphinx to Hedychium gardnerianum.
Business affairs and family ill health keep him busy.
G. J. Allman will succeed Bentham as President of Linnean Society. Busk has refused.
Huxley is well.
JDH has indoctrinated Sir Stafford Northcote with his merits.
Lyell frail.
Old J. E. Gray goes on publishing.
"Is not [Thomas] Belt splendid!"
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
