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DCP-LETT-1600

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[6 Nov 1854]
Source of text:
DAR 205.9: 385
Summary:

Fossil leaves from Disko Island.

JDH to begin working out the botanical geography of the polar sea.

Has not forgotten CD’s request on aberrant species.

Has taken a house on Richmond Hill.

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DCP-LETT-1607

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[15 Nov 1854]
Source of text:
DAR 205.9: 386
Summary:

George Bentham’s list of aberrant plant genera. JDH appended the number of species in each genus according to E. G. Steudel’s catalogue [Nomenclator botanicus (1840–1)] and according to JDH and Bentham.

JDH speculates on effect of splitting Australia longitudinally on distribution; it becomes an argument for new creations.

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DCP-LETT-1611

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 Dec [1854]
Source of text:
DAR 205.9: 388–90
Summary:

Bentham’s list of aberrant genera: CD’s worry that he eliminated large genera a priori is half right. He eliminated those large, anomalous genera that virtually constitute natural orders. JDH criticises CD’s tabulations of aberrants.

Difficulty of distinguishing affinity and analogy in plants.

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DCP-LETT-1629

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[3 Nov 1854]
Source of text:
DAR 104: 214–15
Summary:

JDH’s contempt for R. I. Murchison.

There is a Cyperus species and a Pteris species endemic to hot volcanoes of Ischia. Why are there no other migrators?

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