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Darwin-Hooker Letters : Letter from J. D. Hooker to C. R. Darwin   28 November 1874

Hooker, Joseph Dalton

Darwin-Hooker Letters

<p style='text-align: justify;'>Huxley feels he can accept the Edinburgh lecture invitation.</p><p style='text-align: justify;'>Also tells JDH he is preparing a paper for Linnean Society on classification which will uphold evolution ["On the classification of the animal kingdom", <i>J. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Zool.)</i> 12 (1876): 199–226]. He has thrown overboard all his old ideas of definite demarcation. He will make a clean breast of it, and will bear hard on necessity of all such ideas as Haeckel’s in dealing with systematic zoology.</p>


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