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Darwin-Hooker Letters : Letter from J. D. Hooker to C. R. Darwin   14 November 1869

Hooker, Joseph Dalton

Darwin-Hooker Letters

<p style='text-align: justify;'>Describes how the offer of C.B. was made. He declined a knighthood. Murchison and Lyell are trying to get him made Knight Commander of the Star of India, but he does not think there is a chance. The Duke [of Argyll?] might do it, but does not like JDH’s Darwinism.</p><p style='text-align: justify;'>Next Presidency of Royal Society discussed: all (Brodie, the X Club botanists, <i>et al.</i>) are agreed on Lyell.</p><p style='text-align: justify;'>Everyone is disappointed with <i>Nature</i>.</p><p style='text-align: justify;'>What did CD think of "Huxley’s rhapsody on Goethe’s ditto" [<i>Nature</i> 1 (1869): 9–11]?</p>

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