Hooker, F. H. to Darwin, C. R.
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Mentions a note in Notes and Queries [3d ser. 10 (1866): 343–4] which refers to A sketch of the life and works of Erasmus Darwin.
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My dear M
In case you do not see ``Notes & Queries'', I cannot help sending you this
paragraph from this week's N
``It is not generally known that the views on the development of life, which have been
made popular by M
Honour to whom honour is due!—
Joseph seems to have enjoyed his stay at Lord Lovelace's pretty place in Somerset very
much— he is now at Pembroke Dock, with
D
Your two foreigners made their appearance with your letter of introduction one day this week— of course they were disappointed of seeing Joseph—
With kind love to M
Kew. W.
Nov
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The year is established by the reference to the article in Notes and Queries (see n. 2, below). - +
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The reference is to an article discussing the date of Erasmus Darwin's death, signed `D.', that appeared in the 27 October 1866 issue of Notes and Queries, pp. 343--4. - +
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The writer refers to Dowson 1861. CD's views on descent are compared with those of Erasmus Darwin on pp. 35--7. - +
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Rom. 13: 1--7. - +
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The references are to Joseph Dalton Hooker, William King-Noel (first Earl Lovelace), and the Lovelace estate of Ashley Combe in Somerset (see Woolley 1999, p. 171). - +
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Pembroke Dock, a town on the Cleddau river in west Wales, had a government dockyard where ships were built for the Royal Navy. David Lyall had served with Hooker on the Antarctic expedition of 1839 to 1843 (R. Desmond 1994). - +
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CD had given Ernst Haeckel a letter of introduction to Hooker (see letter to J. D. Hooker, [21 October 1866]). Haeckel's companion was probably the German zoologist, Richard Greeff, who accompanied Haeckel to Lisbon on his way to Madeira (Krauße 1987, p. 77). - +
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Emma Darwin, Henrietta Emma Darwin, and Elizabeth Darwin.