Darwin-Hooker Letters : Letter from C. R. Darwin to J. D. Hooker 10 December [1864]
Darwin, Charles Robert
Darwin-Hooker Letters
<p style='text-align: justify;'>Has found incipient stages of adhesive discs in <i>Hanburia</i> tendrils.</p><p style='text-align: justify;'>Huxley was probably right to have challenged Sabine, but the poor old man is sick.</p><p style='text-align: justify;'>CD remembers the old Disraeli novel [<i>Tancred</i> (1847)] that sneers at transmutation.</p>