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Darwin-Hooker Letters : Letter from J. D. Hooker to C. R. Darwin   [31 January – 8 February 1862]

Hooker, Joseph Dalton

Darwin-Hooker Letters

<p style='text-align: justify;'>Wrote a "frightful screed" about aristocracy’s being a necessary consequence of natural selection, and then burnt it.</p><p style='text-align: justify;'>H. W. Bates is the only man "thinking out" natural selection to any purpose. "I think I have driven Bates back to Nat. Sel. as the only way of solving his difficulties."</p><p style='text-align: justify;'>HWB’s mimetic butterflies.</p><p style='text-align: justify;'>JDH wishes he had time to do the same thing with plants.</p><p style='text-align: justify;'>Owen and Huxley involved in a "contemptible" squabble in the Edinburgh newspapers.</p><p style='text-align: justify;'>Maximovitch reports <i>Stellaria bulbifera</i> is a Siberian form which never ripens its seeds.</p>


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