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To J. D. Hooker   15 [February 1865]

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Hildebrand has sent copy of his paper on Pulmonaria in Botanische Zeitung.

How much should CD contribute to Falconer’s bust?

Oswald Heer on alpine and Arctic floras.

A. R. Wallace on geographical distribution in Malay Archipelago.

Lyell’s new edition of Elements. Wishes someone would do a book like it on botany.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:  15 [Feb 1865]
Classmark:  DAR 115: 261
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4772

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  • Wedgwood III’s daughters, with whom Edmund Langton was friendly (see Correspondence vol.  11, letter from Charles and Emma Darwin to W.  E.  Darwin, [4 May 1863]). CD may have read the notice in the Reader , 11 February 1865, p.  167, of the subscriptions being raised for a memorial of Hugh Falconer in the form of a marble bust. Falconer died on 31 January 1864 ( …