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Darwin-Hooker Letters : Letter from J. D. Hooker to C. R. Darwin   [6 or 7 July 1870]

Hooker, Joseph Dalton

Darwin-Hooker Letters

<p style='text-align: justify;'>Has CD read E. Claparède ["Remarques à propos de l’ouvrage de M. Alfred Russel Wallace sur la théorie de la sélection naturelle", <i>Arch. Sci. Phys. & Nat.</i> n.s. 38 (1870): 160–89]? Is it worth translating?</p><p style='text-align: justify;'>CD and J.-F. de Brandt are "en lutte for Ac. of Sc. [France]. What a farce it is".</p><p style='text-align: justify;'>His work on <i>Nepenthes</i> supports Miquel’s and Wallace’s view of the zoology of Borneo and Sumatra.</p><p style='text-align: justify;'>Brian Hodgson on dogs.</p><p style='text-align: justify;'>H. C. Bastian’s book [<i>The modes of origin of lowest organisms</i> (1871)] unsatisfactory.</p><p style='text-align: justify;'>Lyell does not share CD’s view of Bentham’s address.</p>

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