To J. D. Hooker [8? February 1846]
[Down]
Sunday
My dear Hooker
Thanks for your franck note: we shall have the greatest pleasure in visiting you in the Spring.—
Even if M. Gay had talked English, I believe I cd not have come, for going to London on Wednesday has brought on in spite of Galvanism,1 three days bad sickness.— Emma yesterday to thank Lady Hooker2 & yourself for the Goldsmith Hall good-things, which will delight the children: I am going to send to Bromley tomorrow & will enquire at the Coach offices.
Will you ask Gay for me, what Birds, Reptiles or Mammifers (not introduced) inhabit Juan Fernandez? I have always been curious about it—
In Haste. I will write again before long.
My dear Hooker | C. Darwin
P.S | The good things have just arrived & they look so very good that the poor children will be deluded out of some of them
Do you take in the New Horticultural Journal.— Have you seen the Dean of Ms. Paper?3
Footnotes
Bibliography
Herbert, William. 1846a. Local habitation and wants of plants. Journal of the Horticultural Society of London 1: 44–9.
Summary
Will visit JDH in spring.
Will JDH ask Gay what birds, reptiles, or mammifers inhabit Juan Fernández [Island]?
Has JDH seen William Herbert’s paper ["Local habitation and wants of plants", J. Hortic. Soc. Lond. 1 (1846): 44–9]?
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-950
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Joseph Dalton Hooker
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- DAR 114: 52
- Physical description
- ALS 4pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 950,” accessed on 26 September 2022, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-950.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 3