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To J. D. Hooker 30 April [1860]
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JDH has settled the Leschenaultia case, but it remains a difficulty to CD.
Goodenia, like bee orchid, seems a case of a structure with an evident function, which is not carried out. Is curvature of styles an incidental result of growth or a pollination adaptation?
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 30 Apr [1860] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 51 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2776 |
To J. D. Hooker 18 [April 1860]
Summary
What a base dog Owen is for praising his own work in reviewing Origin [anonymously].
J. H. Balfour is narrow-minded.
CD cannot understand pollination of Goodenia.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 18 [Apr 1860] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 49 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2763 |
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- … see Correspondence vol. 7, letter to J. D. Hooker, [26 May 1859] and n. 3. The January …
- … Hooker the draft of a letter to the Gardeners’ Chronicle to see whether he thought he should send it to the journal for publication. See letters to Gardeners’ Chronicle , [13 April 1860], and to J. D. Hooker, 13 [April 1860]. The letter from Richard Owen to Hooker is also mentioned in CD’s letter to Asa Gray, 25 April [1860] . Owen reviewed Origin , Hooker 1859 , …
To John Murray 9 April [1860]
Summary
Asks that a copy of Origin [1860] be sent to R. A. von Kölliker.
A venomous review "manifestly by Owen" has appeared in Edinburgh Review.
Sedgwick has been fierce in Spectator, but fair and open.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Murray |
| Date: | 9 Apr [1860] |
| Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42152 ff.90–91) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2752 |
Document type
| letter | (3) |
Addressee
| Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
| Murray, John (b) | (1) |
Correspondent
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
| Murray, John (b) | (1) |
