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DCP-LETT-2180

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
4 Dec [1857]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 216
Summary:

Inquiries on effect of dry heat on temperate plants for glacial chapter.

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DCP-LETT-2182

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
9 Dec [1857]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 217
Summary:

Survey of species with well-marked varieties: JDH’s Labiatae case a "great blow", but result is very generally consistent.

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DCP-LETT-2194

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
25 Dec [1857]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 218
Summary:

Species with marked varieties.

Dana’s pamphlet also too metaphysical for CD.

Natural selection chapter on hybridism completed.

Doubts JDH will resist theory in his introduction to Flora Tasmaniae.

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DCP-LETT-2378

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Ferdinand Jakob Heinrich (Ferdinand) von Mueller
Date:
8 Dec [1857]
Source of text:
DAR 92: A31–2
Summary:

Asks whether British or north European perennial plants can, under cultivation, withstand the climate of S. Australia.

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DCP-LETT-2185

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
16 Dec [1857]
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 151); DAR 145: 178
Summary:

THH’s catalogue [THH and R. Etheridge, A catalogue of the collection of fossils in the Museum of Practical Geology (1865), part published in 1857] best résumé he has seen of science of natural history. On classification he is not quite sure that he wholly goes along with THH. Encloses a few criticisms of THH’s preface.[enclosure survives as copy only].

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