From J. D. Hooker [26 February 1862?]1
Kew
Wednesday
Dr. Darwin
The box of Melastomads has arrived all safe.2 I hope you paid nothing on this—for carriage but I see 2/6 in red ink on one direction, & there is 1/10 charged here. We are so awfully cheated here by carriers &c &c that I think it best to tell you of this. There is no railway ticket on the box, though you have directed it to go “by rail”. Can you find out what you paid for the box when you received it.—
I had a talk with the D of Argyll about your book on species, he seems to be between two stools—Owen & Lyell3
Ever yours | J D Hooker
Footnotes
Bibliography
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
Box of Melastomataceae has arrived.
Talked with [Duke of] Argyll about Origin. He is between stools: Owen and Lyell.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-3455
- From
- Joseph Dalton Hooker
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- Kew
- Source of text
- DAR 101: 13
- Physical description
- ALS 2pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 3455,” accessed on 19 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-3455.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 10
