From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Henry Bolus
Date:
7 July 1868
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/3 f.6, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Henry Bolus
Date:
7 July 1868
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/3 f.7, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 July [1868]
Source of text:
DAR 102: 220–1
Summary:
Sketches out subjects he intends to speak on at Norwich [BAAS meeting]: museums, CD’s work in botany, Pangenesis, early history of mankind.
Asks about CD’s "book on man" [Descent].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 July 1868
Source of text:
DAR 102: 225–6
Summary:
Asks for information on how many languages Origin has appeared in, how many English and American editions it has gone through, and its reception abroad. Wants to disprove statement that the theory is "fast passing away".
Baby ill, scarcely any hope of recovery.
Some botanical books have come for CD.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 July 1868
Source of text:
DAR 102: 222–3
Summary:
Thanks for information in CD’s letter.
Baby has been ill.
Has finished rough sketch of [BAAS] address.
Has got G. H. Richard to take Geographical Section at Norwich meeting.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
