Text Online
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
26 March [1854]
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library: DAR 114: 120
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
No summary available.
CD welcomes the prospect of the Philosophical Club of the Royal Society as means for seeing old acquaintances and making new ones. Will try to go up to London regularly.
Admits that the warning from JDH and Asa Gray (that more harm than good will come from combat over the species issue) makes him feel "deuced uncomfortable".
Reflects upon the complexity of Agassiz; how singular that a man of his eminence and immense knowledge "should write such wonderful stuff & bosh".
No summary available.
Journey to Alexandria; life on board ship, fellow travellers, anti-cholera precautions at Gibraltar, Cairo, the desert, Alexandria, donkey drivers.