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DCP-LETT-2602

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
25 [Dec 1859]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 31
Summary:

CD will not write to L. Descaisne to defend his priority over C. V. Naudin.

Feels success of theory depends on acceptance and application by good and well-known workers, like JDH, Huxley, and Lyell.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-2606

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
26 [Dec 1859]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 33, 30a
Summary:

High, detailed praise for introductory essay to Flora Tasmaniae [reprinted as On the flora of Australia (1859)]. CD expects it to convert botanists from doctrine of immutable creation.

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DCP-LETT-2610

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
28 [Dec 1859]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 30
Summary:

CD has written to Asa Gray criticising J. D. Dana’s arguments for a warm period subsequent to glacial period.

Remembers it is Alphonse de Candolle who states that many species are not true species.

Did Huxley write the excellent review in the Times?

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-2613

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
29 [Dec 1859]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 34
Summary:

Queries possible misprint in JDH’s introduction to Flora Tasmaniae.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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