From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 17 Mar 1855]
Source of text:
DAR 104: 210–13
Summary:
JDH criticises C. J. F. Bunbury’s paper on Madeira [J. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Bot.) 1 (1857): 1–35].
Absence of Ophrys on Madeira suggests to JDH a sequence in creation of groups.
Why are flightless insects common in desert?
Australian endemism.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project