Text Online
From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Carl Rafn
Date:
24 May 1863
Source of text:
Kongelige Bibliotek, Copenhagen
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[24 May 1863]
Source of text:
DAR 101: 143–6
Summary:
Flora of Cameroons shakes JDH’s faith in ability to explain past or present migrations. Sees need for a major novel explanation such as natural selection, glacial cold, or continental connections.
Lyell in a bad way about feud with Falconer.
JDH’s opinion of Wallace, Bates, J. E. Gray, Owen, Asa Gray, Lubbock, and Bentham.
Bentham’s Linnean Society address [see 4118].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 May 1863
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library: DAR 101: 143-6
Summary:
Hooker states that he will re-read ARW's 1853 book about the Amazon as he doesn't recall it interesting him at all when it was first published.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project