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Darwin-Hooker Letters : Letter from J. D. Hooker to C. R. Darwin   [23 September 1873]

Hooker, Joseph Dalton

Darwin-Hooker Letters

<p style='text-align: justify;'>Thanks for C. E. Norton’s address.</p><p style='text-align: justify;'>Tyndall’s answer [<i>Nature</i> 8 (1873): 399] has surprised and disappointed him;</p><p style='text-align: justify;'>great trouble in announcing Tyndall’s election as President Elect [of BAAS] yesterday. Tyndall may throw up the Presidency. Spottiswoode and JDH have concocted a letter telling him the facts.</p><p style='text-align: justify;'>A very poor dull meeting. Comments on papers by W. C. Williamson, Clerk Maxwell, David Ferrier, Burdon Sanderson [<i>Rep. BAAS</i> 43: lxx–xci, 23–32,126–7, 131–3].</p><p style='text-align: justify;'>Has heard Huxley is back quite well.</p>

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