From:
William Darwin Fox
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20-9 Oct 187120-9 Oct 1873
Source of text:
DAR 164: 222
Summary:
Fox hopes to see CD in London in November.
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry Holland, 1st baronet
Date:
[20 Oct 1871]
Source of text:
DAR 96: 97
Summary:
Seeks HH’s support for Hooker in JDH’s difficulties with A. S. Ayrton and the Ministry of Works [see Nature 6 (1872): 211–16].
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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Oct 1871
Source of text:
DAR 103: 85–6
Summary:
JDH’s servant carries his letter to Henry Holland about problems with Ayrton. Suggests servant take CD’s letter to Holland to town and post them at same time. Holland is said to be very intimate friend of Gladstone.
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[20 Oct 1871]
Source of text:
DAR 94: 211–12
Summary:
Has written to Henry Holland in strongest terms. Will be surprised and disappointed if he does not accede to JDH’s request.
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
20 [Oct 1871]
Source of text:
DAR 94: 209–10
Summary:
CD agitated by JDH’s letter. Forgot to say that he heard Henry Holland was going to Turin. Beseeches JDH not to resign. No one could possibly replace him.
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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Oct 1871
Source of text:
DAR 103: 87–92
Summary:
JDH has no intention of resigning. Thinks W. E. Gladstone would rather see Ayrton turned out than himself. Gladstone knows JDH has friends who would be troublesome. Only moral and political cowardice of Cabinet keeps Ayrton in office.
Lyell is much altered since autumn.
Has CD read Charles Martins’ paper on the glacial origin of the tourbières of the Jura [Arch. Sci. Phys. & Nat. 42 (1871): 286–308]?
John Scott has an admirable series on horticulture in Bengal ["Notes on horticulture in Bengal", J. Agric. & Hortic. Soc. India 2 (1871) pt 1: 241–96; 3 (1872) pt 1: 1–82].
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From:
Andrew Crombie Ramsay
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Oct 1871
Source of text:
DAR 176: 16
Summary:
Glad CD agrees with his views as much as he does. Not surprised that his red rocks [Red Sandstones] ideas are disputed. The red marls of Auvergne support his inland water theory.
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Hermann Gustav (Hermann) Settegast
Date:
20 Oct 1871
Source of text:
Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Autogr. I/101/2, Bl. 3–4)
Summary:
Thanks HS for the preface to the 3d edition [of Die Thierzucht (1872)].
Has purchased H. von Nathusius’ work [? Vorträge über Viehzucht und Rassenkenntniss, Th. 1 (1872)]; feels he has ignored all that CD has attempted to make out with respect to domesticated animals.
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