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Darwin-Hooker Letters : Letter from J. D. Hooker to C. R. Darwin   13 May 1866

Hooker, Joseph Dalton

Darwin-Hooker Letters

<p style='text-align: justify;'>Refers to enclosure from Asa Gray</p><p style='text-align: justify;'>with whom he can talk calmly now that war is over. North had no right to resort to bloodshed.</p><p style='text-align: justify;'>Startled by CD’s attendance at Royal Society soirée.</p><p style='text-align: justify;'>Has asked E. B. Tylor to make up questions for consuls and missionaries, through whose wives a lot of most curious information [for <i>Descent</i>?] could be obtained.</p><p style='text-align: justify;'>Tying umbilical cord has always been a mystery to JDH.</p><p style='text-align: justify;'>John Crawfurd’s paper on cultivated plants is shocking twaddle ["On the migration of cultivated plants in reference to ethnology", <i>J. Bot. Br. & Foreign</i> 4 (1866): 317–32].</p><p style='text-align: justify;'>R. T. Lowe back from Madeira.</p>

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