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From:

Ferdinand von Mueller

To:

Daniel Mackinnon

Date:

7 January 1873

Source of text:

Box 12/6 Mackinnon papers, bay 16, La Trobe Australian Manuscripts Collection, State Library of Victoria, Melbourne

Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:

Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

From:

Joseph Dalton Hooker

To:

Charles Robert Darwin

Date:

7 Jan 1873

Source of text:

DAR 103: 140–5

Summary:

Fascinated by Greg’s Enigmas, though its matter is weak.

Is vexed at being drawn into hostility toward British Museum through William Carruthers’ insolence and presumption.

Recounts visit with Edward Cardwell [Secretary for War].

Has sent Candolle’s book to Gladstone.

JDH indignant at Gladstone’s speech putting English science below French and German.

Thinks it is an accepted dogma that glandular hairs are excreting only. Will ask others to confirm.

Contributor:

Darwin Correspondence Project