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From J. D. Hooker [8 November 1873]
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Has had a week’s cessation of Nepenthes work.
Had to get out a paper for the Linnean Society on Thursday.
Has tried Mimosa albida in hothouse and found it wonderfully sensitive.
A military report from India praises his travel book.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [8 Nov 1873] |
| Classmark: | DAR 103: 184–5 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9150 |
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- … letter to J. D. Hooker, 3 November [1873] and n. 5. Hooker’s Himalayan journals ( J. D. Hooker 1854 ) was praised in John Cox Gawler’s Sikkim, with hints on mountain and jungle warfare ( Gawler 1873 , p. 3). Leonard Darwin was in Royal Engineers. Gawler was keeper of the crown jewels until his death in 1882. …
