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Darwin-Hooker Letters : Letter from J. D. Hooker to C. R. Darwin   24 March 1874

Hooker, Joseph Dalton

Darwin-Hooker Letters

<p style='text-align: justify;'>"Half an answer" to CD’s query on visit of <i>Sphinx</i> to <i>Hedychium gardnerianum</i>.</p><p style='text-align: justify;'>Business affairs and family ill health keep him busy.</p><p style='text-align: justify;'>G. J. Allman will succeed Bentham as President of Linnean Society. Busk has refused.</p><p style='text-align: justify;'>Huxley is well.</p><p style='text-align: justify;'>JDH has indoctrinated Sir Stafford Northcote with his merits.</p><p style='text-align: justify;'>Lyell frail.</p><p style='text-align: justify;'>Old J. E. Gray goes on publishing.</p><p style='text-align: justify;'>"Is not [Thomas] Belt splendid!"</p>

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