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Darwin-Hooker Letters : Letter from J. D. Hooker to C. R. Darwin   4 December 1866

Hooker, Joseph Dalton

Darwin-Hooker Letters

<p style='text-align: justify;'>Lyell’s volume [<i>Principles</i>, 10th ed.] received.</p><p style='text-align: justify;'>"We must now keep him straight anent origin and development."</p><p style='text-align: justify;'>Some of Spencer’s new part is interesting but much is dull and ponderous.</p><p style='text-align: justify;'>Huxley’s <i>Elementary physiology</i> [1866].</p><p style='text-align: justify;'>Has finished his New Zealand manual [<i>Handbook of New Zealand flora</i> (1864–7)]. New Zealand flora [and past geological conditions] suggest islands were once connected.</p><p style='text-align: justify;'>Speculates on the total amount of living organised matter on the globe, and whether it varies.</p><p style='text-align: justify;'>Balfour Stewart on sunspots.</p>

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