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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Stevens Henslow
Date:
17 Nov [1854]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.109)
Summary:

Asks JSH to inquire about drift-wood at Kerguelen Land.

Hooker’s observation on similarity of Kerguelen plant species to those of Tierra del Fuego strikes CD as a great anomaly, so he is searching for an answer, "however improbable".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Walter Baldock Durrant Mantell
Date:
17 Nov 1854
Source of text:
Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand (Mantell papers, MS-Papers-0083-268)
Summary:

Requests authoritative information on erratic boulders and marks of glaciers in New Zealand, and especially in southern islands.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project