To J. D. Hooker 6 December [1860]1
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Dec 6th.
My dear Hooker.
Get hold of Macmillan for Fawcetts article on the Origin, for he quotes your splendid speech at Oxford with admirable effect.—2 He alludes to Huxley, the Bishop & the Ape.—3 He evidently thinks the discussion at Oxford was first rate
C. D
Footnotes
Bibliography
Fawcett, Henry. 1860. A popular exposition of Mr Darwin on the origin of species. Macmillan’s Magazine 3 (1861): 81–92.
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
Henry Fawcett’s article on Origin [Macmillan’s Mag. 3 (1860): 81–92] quotes JDH’s Oxford speech.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-3011
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Joseph Dalton Hooker
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- DAR 115: 79
- Physical description
- ALS 1p
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 3011,” accessed on 24 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-3011.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 8