From J. D. Hooker [2 June 1866]1
Kew.
Saturday
Dear Darwin
I grieve to hear of your state again.2
I assure you I am more grieved that you should vex yourself about the omissions as you call them—3 As to mine they prove nothing & there was no call to notice them. they can only claim to be illustrations of using your methods.4
Ever Yr aff | J D Hooker
Footnotes
Bibliography
Bates, Henry Walter. 1860. Contributions to an insect fauna of the Amazon valley. Diurnal Lepidoptera. [Read 5 March and 24 November 1860.] Transactions of the Entomological Society of London n.s. 5 (1858–61): 223–8, 335–61.
Hooker, Joseph Dalton. 1859. On the flora of Australia, its origin, affinities, and distribution; being an introductory essay to the flora of Tasmania. London: Lovell Reeve.
Origin: On the origin of species by means of natural selection, or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1859.
Summary
He is not grieved at CD’s omissions of his [JDH’s] work [from Origin, 4th ed.]. It proves nothing – claims only to be illustration of using CD’s methods.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-5110
- From
- Joseph Dalton Hooker
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- Kew
- Source of text
- DAR 102: 78
- Physical description
- ALS 1p
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 5110,” accessed on 26 September 2022, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-5110.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 14
