Darwin-Hooker Letters : Letter from J. D. Hooker to C. R. Darwin 20 April 1863
Hooker, Joseph Dalton
Darwin-Hooker Letters
<p style='text-align: justify;'>Attacks by Falconer [<i>Athenæum</i> 4 Apr 1863, pp. 459–60] and Joseph Prestwich on Lyell.</p><p style='text-align: justify;'>W. B. Carpenter fails to attack Owen.</p><p style='text-align: justify;'><i>Welwitschia</i> male cones with useless ovules marvellous example of lost function and retained structure.</p><p style='text-align: justify;'>JDH evaluates his sons.</p>