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From:
William Henry Harvey
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
23 May 1853
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP15/1/1
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
No summary available.
Further response to MS of introductory essay to Flora Novae-Zelandiae.
Disbelieving in permanence of species has made little difference to CD in his barnacle work.
Detailed response to MS of introductory essay to [The botany of the Antarctic voyage, pt II] Flora Novae-Zelandiae [1853–5]. CD will curse JDH when, in a year or two, he is at his species book, for "having put so many hostile facts so confoundedly well".
Returning JDH’s MS and books.
Reading Mrs Gaskell’s Ruth [1853].
Edward Sabine’s official letter announcing CD’s receipt of Royal Society Medal left him cold. JDH’s informal one moved him.
Applauds JDH for supporting John Lindley.