From J. D. Hooker 20 January 1873
Jany 20/73.
Dear Darwin
I hope that the Drosophyllum was all right. Smith sent it on as it was.1 If not I will get you it elsewhere.
I go to Cheshire tomorrow on a visit to a Mr Tollemache near Sir P. Egerton’s, & return on Friday.2
The opinion of Council of R.S. was taken on Thursday & I was told that 18 were for me out of 24.— (5 were for the Duke, & Airy for Spottiswode.)3
This of course private.
Ever yours affec | J D Hooker
Footnotes
Summary
Hopes Drosophyllum was all right.
Opinion of Council of Royal Society [on Presidency] is twelve for JDH, five for Duke of Devonshire, and G. B. Airy for William Spottiswoode.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-8742
- From
- Joseph Dalton Hooker
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- unstated
- Source of text
- DAR 103: 148
- Physical description
- ALS 2pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 8742,” accessed on 24 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-8742.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 21
