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DCP-LETT-8025

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry Holland, 1st baronet
Date:
[20 Oct 1871]
Source of text:
DAR 96: 97
Summary:

Seeks HH’s support for Hooker in JDH’s difficulties with A. S. Ayrton and the Ministry of Works [see Nature 6 (1872): 211–16].

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-8022

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[20 Oct 1871]
Source of text:
DAR 94: 211–12
Summary:

Has written to Henry Holland in strongest terms. Will be surprised and disappointed if he does not accede to JDH’s request.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8023

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
20 [Oct 1871]
Source of text:
DAR 94: 209–10
Summary:

CD agitated by JDH’s letter. Forgot to say that he heard Henry Holland was going to Turin. Beseeches JDH not to resign. No one could possibly replace him.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8020

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Hermann Gustav (Hermann) Settegast
Date:
20 Oct 1871
Source of text:
Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Autogr. I/101/2, Bl. 3–4)
Summary:

Thanks HS for the preface to the 3d edition [of Die Thierzucht (1872)].

Has purchased H. von Nathusius’ work [? Vorträge über Viehzucht und Rassenkenntniss, Th. 1 (1872)]; feels he has ignored all that CD has attempted to make out with respect to domesticated animals.

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