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To J. D. Hooker   26 November [1868]

Summary

CD thought Watson’s article beastly in its criticisms of JDH. Watson’s criticism of CD was not new or important, but fair, so CD could honestly thank him, adding his regret at what was said about JDH.

Is sitting for Woolner bust.

Has read James Croll on alternation of glacial and warmer periods in north and south, which would remove JDH’s objections to cool period extending to equator.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:  26 Nov [1868]
Classmark:  DAR 94: 98–101
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-6476

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  • Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242), Woolner had arrived at Down on 19 November 1868; Alice Gertrude Woolner , Katherine Euphemia Wedgwood , Vernon and Jane Lushington , and William Erasmus Darwin were there from 28 to 30 November 1868. CD refers to Elizabeth Darwin , and also to William Henslow Hooker , who had sailed for New Zealand on 11 November 1868, on the Matoaka ( letter from J.  D.   …

To J. D. Hooker   28 February [1868]

Summary

Does not understand JDH on Pangenesis: on last page he appears to admit all that he regards as mere words on previous pages.

Wallace admires chapter on Pangenesis.

Pangenesis is a comfort. CD gains no idea from words like "potentiality" or "diffusing an influence"; atoms and cells give a distinct idea.

A. Newton told George that Berthold Seemann wrote the Athenæum review

and that Lewis [Lewes] did not write the Pall Mall Gazette review [see 5874].

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:  28 Feb [1868]
Classmark:  DAR 94: 55–7c
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-5951

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  • J.  D.  Hooker, 26[–7] February 1868 . CD stayed with his brother, Erasmus Alvey Darwin , at 6 Queen Anne Street from 3 to 11 March, and with his sister-in-law, Sarah Elizabeth Wedgwood , at 4 Chester Place, Regent’s Park, from 11 March to 1 April ( Emma
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