From J. D. Hooker [12 January 1863]1
[Royal Gardens Kew]
Dr. Darwin
Can you answer this2 I have just finished Huxleys Lectures—3 the 3 last are tremendously good,4 how lucidly & vigorously he writes— if he took more pains he would be a Scientific Buckle:5 & Oh My what praise of you—& all merited too, richly.—6 I hope you are better.7 I am off to freeze in Paris on Saturday with Bentham for 10 days—8
Ever yours affec | J D Hooker
What is the sum of our knowledge regarding qualities induced in the individual being in any degree hereditary?
Monday.
CD annotations
Footnotes
Bibliography
Buckle, Henry Thomas. 1857–61. History of civilization in England. 2 vols. London: John W. Parker & Son.
Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.
Jackson, Benjamin Daydon. 1906. George Bentham. London: J. M. Dent. New York: E. P. Dutton.
Summary
Huxley’s lectures [Man’s place in nature (1863)]; he would be a scientific H. T. Buckle, if he were more careful.
Asks CD what the evidence is for inheritance of acquired characteristics.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-3892
- From
- Joseph Dalton Hooker
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- unstated
- Source of text
- DAR 101: 98
- Physical description
- ALS 2pp †
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 3892,” accessed on 19 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-3892.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 11