From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Jan 1878
Source of text:
DAR 104: 101–2
Summary:
Invites CD to Kew.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Invites CD to Kew.
He has obtained further evidence that rats gnaw through lead pipes for water. CD’s opinion that they hear trickling confirms his view that they possess reason.
Sorry he was out when CD called.