Darwin-Hooker Letters : Letter from J. D. Hooker to C. R. Darwin [8 November 1873]
Hooker, Joseph Dalton
Darwin-Hooker Letters
<p style='text-align: justify;'>Has had a week’s cessation of <i>Nepenthes</i> work.</p><p style='text-align: justify;'>Had to get out a paper for the Linnean Society on Thursday.</p><p style='text-align: justify;'>Has tried <i>Mimosa albida</i> in hothouse and found it wonderfully sensitive.</p><p style='text-align: justify;'>A military report from India praises his travel book.</p>