To J. D. Hooker 29 January 1876
Down, | Beckenham, Kent.
Jan 29. 76
My dear Hooker
Frank and I, if we are both alive, will certainly be at the Linn: Soc on Thursday, & I hope the Socy will be saved from the utter disgrace of blackballing Lankester.1 Its grand news about Tyndall & I heartily rejoice at it.2 I saw the extreme absurdity of Taits new names; I could not judge at all about the morphological part, but I cannot help being sorry for him notwithstanding his extreme presumption & vanity.3 My wicked son Frank rejoices at his discomfiture, which I must own he does deserve
Ever yours | Ch. Darwin
Footnotes
Bibliography
Tait, Lawson. 1879–80. Notes on the structures of pitcher plants. Midland Naturalist 2 (1879): 265–8, 295–7; 3 (1880): 5–8, 58–62.
Summary
Promises to vote for Lankester.
Acknowledges faults of R. L. Tait’s paper.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-10374
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Joseph Dalton Hooker
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- DAR 95: 403
- Physical description
- LS 2pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 10374,” accessed on 26 September 2022, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-10374.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 24