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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
5 Oct [1878]
Source of text:
DAR 95: 475–6
Summary:

Before JDH discusses flora of Canary Islands CD suggests he read F. B. White’s paper [see 11707], which explains stocking of Atlantic island fauna as due to changed currents during [last, or Miocene] northern glacial period.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Carl Gottfried Semper
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 Oct 1878
Source of text:
DAR 177: 140
Summary:

Thanks CD for writing machine.

Recalls visit by CD’s son [Francis].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project