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From J. D. Hooker   [12 January 1863]

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Huxley’s lectures [Man’s place in nature (1863)]; he would be a scientific H. T. Buckle, if he were more careful.

Asks CD what the evidence is for inheritance of acquired characteristics.

Author:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [12 Jan 1863]
Classmark:  DAR 101: 98
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-3892

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  • Hooker refers to the historian Henry Thomas Buckle , the author of History of civilisation in England ( Buckle 1857–61 ), a work that CD greatly admired (see, for example, Correspondence vol.  7, letters to J.  D. …
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