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From J. D. Hooker   [10 March 1862]

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Returns Asa Gray’s letter. Disappointed with Gray. Comments on America. British–American relations.

Author:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [10 Mar 1862]
Classmark:  DAR 101: 20–2; Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (probably JDH/2/1/2)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-3469

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  • John and Ellen Frances Lubbock . William Jackson Hooker had been seriously ill since the summer of 1861 ( Allan 1967 , pp.  207, 208). Hooker refers to examinations for admission to the Army Medical Service, held at Chelsea Hospital in March 1862. Hooker served for many years as a scientific examiner for medical officers in the armed services (L.  Huxley ed.  1918, 1: 387); he was examiner for the paper on natural history, held on 11 March 1862 ( Statistical, Sanitary, and Medical Reports 1860, …
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