From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Sept [1845]
Source of text:
DAR 100: 14–15
Summary:
JDH’s grandfather’s death.
Collecting testimonials for the Edinburgh chair.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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JDH’s grandfather’s death.
Collecting testimonials for the Edinburgh chair.
The most experienced botanists argue for the "validity of species in nature". Against taxonomic "splitters".
CD’s Cape Tres Montes plants.
Thanks for Journal of researches.
Puzzled over pea flower from Cape Tres Montes.
Thinks species a fair and most profitable subject for discussion, but has no formed opinion of his own.