From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Aug 1856
Source of text:
DAR 100: 100–4
Summary:
JDH’s arguments against transmutation: 1. Plants do not show the confusion he would expect; 2. Under clearly similar physical conditions we do not find same species.
JDH’s argument against migration: commonality of alpine species. Believes migration opposes facts of botanical distribution in Van Diemen’s Land and New Zealand; prefers continental extension theory.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
