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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
3 Dec [1858]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 256
Summary:

Examining JDH’s list. CD struck by how many plants are common to Europe, S. America, and Australia.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
24 Dec [1858]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 257
Summary:

Wide-ranging species more "improved" than relics in small areas because they exist in large numbers and thus are subject to intense competition.

His abstract is 330 folio pages long so far.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
27 [Nov 1858]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 258
Summary:

Memorial concerning British Museum collection.

Relation of Cape of Good Hope and Australian flora a great trouble. CD’s high estimation of importance of glacial period for distribution.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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