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Darwin-Hooker Letters : Letter from J. D. Hooker to C. R. Darwin   5 August 1869

Hooker, Joseph Dalton

Darwin-Hooker Letters

<p style='text-align: justify;'>Huxley has shown him the jaws of an <i>Anoplotherium</i> brought from the Gallegos by R. O. Cunningham.</p><p style='text-align: justify;'>Saw Hallett’s wheat crops at Brighton; results of his selection very striking.</p><p style='text-align: justify;'>Huxley is assembling his Darwiniana papers for republication.</p><p style='text-align: justify;'>Has written a crushing reply to Richard Congreve ["The scientific aspects of positivism", <i>Fortn. Rev.</i> n.s. 5 (1869): 653–70] and JDH feels "infantine" beside him.</p><p style='text-align: justify;'>Comments on Sabine’s being offered and accepting K.C.B.</p>


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