To J. D. Hooker [12 December 1875]1
2. Bryanston St
Sunday 11th
My dear Hooker
I have not felt so angry for years, & could hardly get to sleep after receiving your letter last night.2 I will urge Frank (now in N. Wales) to get admitted on Jan 25th. & we will come & vote together.— I shall feel it a duty to come up, & will attend, if my head will possibly allow me.3 I hope & think that the voting is before the papers are read aloud.— I will call on Allman4 one of these first mornings, as I want much to hear who the malcontents are. It seems to me the most disgraceful act which any scientific Socy. has done in my time.— I wish that I knew what the malcontents have to say for themselves.— I will speak to Romanes to get admitted so as to vote.—5 I wish that I had got a list of members to see whether there is anyone whom I could interest. What a waste of time & good feelings these blackguards cause.
Ever affecty. yours | C. Darwin
I am off in an hour’s time to Huxley & will hear what he says.—6
I have come back from Huxley but he does not know who the Malcontents are.
Footnotes
Summary
CD is furious at the prospect of Lankester’s being black-balled by the Linnean Society. He plans to solicit support from various members and to come up with Frank for the voting.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-10295
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Joseph Dalton Hooker
- Sent from
- London, Bryanston St, 2
- Source of text
- DAR 95: 401–2
- Physical description
- ALS 3pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 10295,” accessed on 26 September 2022, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-10295.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 23