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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Maurice Herbert
Date:
[3 Sept? 1846]
Source of text:
DAR 145: 118
Summary:

Is slaving at South America – ¾ finished.

Has discovered geologists never read each other’s works – "the only object in writing a book is a proof of earnestness … Geology is at present very oral".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 3 Sept 1846]
Source of text:
DAR 100: 79
Summary:

Has done Edmondston’s Galapagos plants.

Dispute between Edward Forbes and H. C. Watson.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Edward Forbes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[Sept 1846]
Source of text:
DAR 43.1: 46
Summary:

Returns corrected proof of his descriptions of S. American fossil shells [South America, appendix].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[3 Sept 1846]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 64
Summary:

Has nearly finished South America.

Pleased to hear JDH has worked out identical and representative species of N. Temperate and Antarctic regions.

Geoffroy Saint Hilaire’s "loi du balancement" as applied to plants.

CD jaded by, but has nearly completed, South America.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 Sept 1846
Source of text:
DAR 100: 69–72
Summary:

Cannot come to Down to meet B. J. Sulivan as W. H. Harvey is calling.

Plant distribution and soil nature.

Forbes’s modification of Watson’s types of vegetation.

JDH will write comparison of representative plant species of the N. and S. Hemispheres.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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