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DCP-LETT-8176

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 Jan 1872
Source of text:
DAR 103: 103–4
Summary:

William [Hooker] is in first division of matriculation list of London University.

Other family news.

No news on Ayrton affair. Ayrton has taken staff appointments out of JDH’s hands.

Asks whether CD knows about Zizania aquatica – can hardly believe it is an annual.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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JHC1543

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Henry Bolus
Date:
24 January 1872
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/3 f.22, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

DCP-LETT-8177

From:
Thomas Stanley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 Jan 1872
Source of text:
DAR 177: 246
Summary:

Wants references to the work of Julius von Haast and James Hector on New Zealand glaciers, which CD mentions in the Origin [6th ed., p. 335].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8178

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Bartholomew James Sulivan
Date:
24 Jan 1872
Source of text:
Sulivan family (private collection)
Summary:

Suggests BJS write to Louis Agassiz about his [fossil mammal?] specimens but doubts that he will have time to do the work. Regrets they were ignored at the Royal College of Surgeons; thinks Owen neglected many things because he was overworked.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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