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
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[4–9 Sept 1845]
Source of text:
DAR 104: 208–9
Summary:
The most experienced botanists argue for the "validity of species in nature". Against taxonomic "splitters".
CD’s Cape Tres Montes plants.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 Sept 1845
Source of text:
DAR 100: 55–6
Summary:
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.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
