From J. D. Hooker 28 January 1876
Royal Gardens Kew
Jany 28/76
Dear Darwin
Shall you be able to come up & vote for Lankester?— We cannot make out the tactics of the opposition— they were canvassing hard for black balls last week—but it is reported that they are going to withdraw opposition & we cannot afford to run any risk.1
I should ere this have written to you about L. Tait’s paper, which I think is not worthy of being read ever: his morphological part is trash— fancy his giving new names to common hairs, epidermis, & stomata, calling the first buds, the 2d epithelium, & the third Rhines. Then too he figures badly tissue & structure that have been admirably figured over & over again, some of them 20 years ago, & ignores all previous writers on the subject.—2
I have had to send Harriet3 to St Leonards for her cough— she returns today, & we go to Barton tomorrow for 2 days, returning on Tuesday.
Ever affec yrs | J D Hooker
Have you heard of Tyndalls engagement? to a dau of Lord Claude Hamilton— the Spottiswodes say that she is very nice & well suited.4 I once saw her & I liked her.
Footnotes
Bibliography
Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.
ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.
Tait, Lawson. 1879–80. Notes on the structures of pitcher plants. Midland Naturalist 2 (1879): 265–8, 295–7; 3 (1880): 5–8, 58–62.
Summary
Asks CD to come up to vote for Lankester.
Severely critical of R. L. Tait’s paper on Nepenthes communicated to the Royal Society.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-10371
- From
- Joseph Dalton Hooker
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- Kew
- Source of text
- DAR 104: 51–2
- Physical description
- ALS 4pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 10371,” accessed on 26 September 2022, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-10371.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 24