To J. D. Hooker 27 September 1873
Down, | Beckenham, Kent.
Sep 27. ’73
My dear Hooker,
I am delighted that you will come this day week, as I have many things that I should like to talk over with you.1 Let me have a card & I will see that some vehicle meets you. Your note from Bradford was very juicy in news.2 After I had written but before I had despatched my last note I had read Tyndal’s letter but said nothing about it in my note, for I did not like to say what I thought.3 It was awfully savage, but certainly a great mistake to print it.
I think if you read Clerk Maxwells lecture you will alter your opinion.4 I quite agree with what you say about Allman.5
Ever yours | Ch. Darwin
Do you think you could find out for me the temperature of rain in very hot countries, as in the hotter parts of India?6
Footnotes
Summary
Had read Tyndall’s letter [Nature 8 (1873): 399] – awfully savage, but certainly a great mistake to print it.
Thinks JDH will think better of Clerk Maxwell’s paper after he reads it.
Asks whether JDH could find out for him the temperature of rain in very hot countries.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-9074
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Joseph Dalton Hooker
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- DAR 95: 280–1
- Physical description
- LS(A) 3pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 9074,” accessed on 19 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-9074.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 21
