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Darwin-Hooker Letters : Letter from J. D. Hooker to C. R. Darwin   20 May 1868

Hooker, Joseph Dalton

Darwin-Hooker Letters

<p style='text-align: justify;'>Trip with Huxley was perfect.</p><p style='text-align: justify;'>At Torquay later he had a lecture on "Kent’s hole" from Joseph Pengelly.</p><p style='text-align: justify;'>George Bentham acknowledges himself unreservedly a convert to Darwinism. Many will still cling to a "rag of protection, but will eventually haul it down".</p><p style='text-align: justify;'>A. Murray’s later parts better than first [? <i>Geographical distribution of mammals</i> (1866)].</p><p style='text-align: justify;'>Wallace’s paper shows great ability.</p><p style='text-align: justify;'>Disgusted with [Duke of Argyll’s] <i>Reign of law</i>.</p><p style='text-align: justify;'>His depression and exhaustion.</p>


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