From J. D. Hooker [6 or 7 July 1870]
Summary
Has CD read E. Claparède ["Remarques à propos de l’ouvrage de M. Alfred Russel Wallace sur la théorie de la sélection naturelle", Arch. Sci. Phys. & Nat. n.s. 38 (1870): 160–89]? Is it worth translating?
CD and J.-F. de Brandt are "en lutte for Ac. of Sc. [France]. What a farce it is".
His work on Nepenthes supports Miquel’s and Wallace’s view of the zoology of Borneo and Sumatra.
Brian Hodgson on dogs.
H. C. Bastian’s book [The modes of origin of lowest organisms (1871)] unsatisfactory.
Lyell does not share CD’s view of Bentham’s address.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [6 or 7 July 1870] |
| Classmark: | DAR 103: 55–56 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7267 |
From Ernst Haeckel 6 July 1870
Summary
Discusses applicability of evolutionary theory to the question of human origins.
Describes revisions in 2d edition of Natürliche Schöpfungsgeschichte.
His research on calcareous sponges.
Mentions evolutionary content in Gegenbaur’s Vergleichende Anatomie [2d ed. (1870)].
| Author: | Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 6 July 1870 |
| Classmark: | DAR 166: 54 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7268 |
From A. R. Wallace 6 July 1870
Summary
Thanks for the drawing.
E. Claparède’s review [of Theory of natural selection, Rev. Cours Sci. 7 (1870): 564–71] is weak.
Looks forward [to Descent] with fear of being "crushed under a mountain of facts!"
| Author: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 6 July 1870 |
| Classmark: | DAR 106: B92–3 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7269 |
| Haeckel, Ernst | (1) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
| Wallace, A. R. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
| Haeckel, Ernst | (1) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
| Wallace, A. R. | (1) |
