From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
18 [July 1855]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 142
Summary:
Has read a paper, presumably by JDH, using the Madeiran flora to argue against Forbes’s doctrine.
JDH asked how far CD will go in attributing common descent; he intends to show "the facts & arguments for & against the common descent of species of same genus; & then show how far the same arguments tell for or against forms, more & more widely different".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project