Letter 7200
Darwin, C. R. to Hooker, J. D.
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Concern about futures of Willy [Hooker] and Horace [Darwin].
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Henrietta [Darwin] back from Cannes.
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CD has been to Cambridge to visit Frank [Darwin]. Saw Sedgwick, who took him to the [Geological] Museum and utterly exhausted him. Humiliating to be "killed by a man of 86".
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Saw Alfred Newton.
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CD has been working away on man, to much greater length (as usual) than expected,
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and on cross- and self-fertilisation.
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Does JDH happen to have seeds of Canna warszewiczii matured in some hot country?
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Sympathises with JDH on Dawson's paper – amusing that Dawson hashes up E. D. Cope's and L. Agassiz's views.