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Darwin-Hooker Letters : Letter from J. D. Hooker to C. R. Darwin   1 January 1865

Hooker, Joseph Dalton

Darwin-Hooker Letters

<p style='text-align: justify;'>Forwards H. T. Stainton letter for reply.</p><p style='text-align: justify;'>Finds many <i>Cucurbita</i> have tendrils with sticking ends.</p><p style='text-align: justify;'>The "potentiality of so many organs in plants to play so many parts is one of the most wonderful of your discoveries . . . one day it will itself play a prodigious part in the interpretation of both morphological and physiological facts".</p><p style='text-align: justify;'>Is disgusted with Sabine’s address [see <em class="doubleUnderline">4708</em>] because of its mutilation of what JDH wrote.</p><p style='text-align: justify;'>THH’s slashing leader in <i>Reader</i> ["Science and ""Church policy"" ", 4 (1864): 821] – as usual he destroys all in his path.</p><p style='text-align: justify;'>Encloses letter from G. H. K. Thwaites with a message for CD [see encl].</p>

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