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I expect to think that I would rather be author of your book [The Origin of Species] than of any other on Nat. Hist. Science.[Letter to Charles Darwin 12 Dec 1859]

Joseph Dalton Hooker , in Life and Letters of Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker O.M., G.C.S.I.
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