From:
Julius Victor Carus
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 Jan 1868
Source of text:
DAR 161: 66
Summary:
Queries concerned with translating vol. 2 of Variation.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Francis Julius (Julius) von Haast
Date:
28 Jan [1868]
Source of text:
Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand (Haast family papers, MS-Papers-0037-051-3)
Summary:
Thanks JvH for J. Stack’s answers [to queries about expression]. Though few, they are the best and clearest he has received. Sends a corrected printed version of queries.
Belatedly thanks JvH for his splendid report on glaciers [missing].
CD lives "in constant state of overwork and fatigue".
Everyone astonished by Dinornis photos.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 Jan 1868
Source of text:
DAR 102: 189–190
Summary:
Wollaston’s situation hopeless; he must go to Boulogne or Jersey to live. A friend will keep his collection and books together.
JDH’s opinion of Wollaston’s Coleoptera Hesperidum [1867].
Cannot read Duke of Argyll.
CD’s view of Asa Gray as foreign member of Royal Society; compares him to Candolle.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
