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Darwin-Hooker Letters : Letter from J. D. Hooker to C. R. Darwin   20 January 1874

Hooker, Joseph Dalton

Darwin-Hooker Letters

<p style='text-align: justify;'>An awful row at the Linnean Society. William Carruthers and Co. packed a meeting to throw out a decision of the Council. He was beaten by one vote (more than two-thirds majority needed).</p><p style='text-align: justify;'>Spent two hours with Lyell talking about Thomas Belt’s book [<i>The naturalist in Nicaragua</i> (1874)]: "the tropical old Glaciers beat the seance I do think".</p><p style='text-align: justify;'>Lyell agrees that the glacial epoch is the great geological crux of the day. Lowering of the ocean level must also be investigated.</p><p style='text-align: justify;'>Curious about A. C. Ramsay’s paper coming at Royal Society on 29th ["On the comparative value of certain geological ages", <i>Proc. R. Soc. Lond.</i> 22 (1874): 145–8].</p><p style='text-align: justify;'>Huxley’s new book [? <i>Critiques and addresses</i> (1873)].</p>

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