Darwin-Hooker Letters : Letter from J. D. Hooker to C. R. Darwin 22 December 1871
Hooker, Joseph Dalton
Darwin-Hooker Letters
<p style='text-align: justify;'>Philosophical Club dinner.</p><p style='text-align: justify;'>Lyell contradicts W. B. Carpenter on current in Straits of Gibraltar.</p><p style='text-align: justify;'>James Orton’s report on fossil shells found by L. Agassiz 2000 miles up the Amazon. Their identification disposes of the glacial hypothesis.</p><p style='text-align: justify;'>No news yet from Gladstone on Ayrton affair.</p>