From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[26 Feb 1863]
Source of text:
DAR 101: 108–10
Summary:
Criticism of Antiquity of man; its public reception.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
26 [Feb 1863]
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 191)
Summary:
Praise of Man’s place.
Owen’s muddling letter in Athenæum [21 Feb 1863, pp. 262–3].
Is disappointed in Lyell’s excessive caution on species and origin of man [in Antiquity of man].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 Feb 1863
Source of text:
DAR 229: 10
Summary:
A diploma. CD is elected a corresponding member.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Augustus De Morgan
Date:
[26 February 1863]
Source of text:
RS:HS 23.363
Summary:
Comments on family health; asks AD if he has read James Challis on the topics of the ether and of zodiacal light.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Francis Walker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 Feb 1863
Source of text:
DAR 181: 3
Summary:
Identifies flies sent to him by CD. [CD note states that these were found with orchid pollinia adhering to them.]
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project