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Darwin-Hooker Letters : Letter from C. R. Darwin to J. D. Hooker   23 September [1864]

Darwin, Charles Robert

Darwin-Hooker Letters

<p style='text-align: justify;'>Pleased with news of BAAS meeting</p><p style='text-align: justify;'>and Scott’s possible position as Thomas Anderson’s curator.</p><p style='text-align: justify;'>Suggests Wallace is due for a Royal Medal.</p><p style='text-align: justify;'>Agrees with JDH’s criticism of Lyell’s address [see <em class="doubleUnderline">4614</em>].</p><p style='text-align: justify;'>Bentham’s Linnean Society address treats continuity of life in a vague non-natural sense.</p><p style='text-align: justify;'>Rereading his old MS [<i>Natural selection</i>] CD is impressed with work he had already done.</p><p style='text-align: justify;'>Writing <i>Variation</i> much harder than <i>Climbing plants</i>.</p><p style='text-align: justify;'>Encloses request to JDH to propose, or suggest on his behalf, that the Ray Society publish a translation of C. F. von Gärtner’s <i>Versuche und Beobachtungen über die Bastarderzeugung im Pflanzenreich</i> (1849).</p>


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