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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
19 Mar [1845]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 28
Summary:

Would like to borrow the pamphlet on variation [Frédéric Gérard, "De l’espèce dans les corps organisés" (1844), extract from Dictionnaire universel d’histoire naturelle, ed. C. D. d’Orbigny].

Glad to hear Humboldt’s views on migration. CD believes we cannot "put any limit to the possible and even probable migration of plants".

Wants good book on plant morphology.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[26 Mar 1845]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 29
Summary:

Has received pamphlet from JDH [John Murray, Strictures on morphology (1845)].

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
31 Mar [1845]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 30
Summary:

Hopes JDH will enjoy Edinburgh.

Has just finished Isidore Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire on animal monsters [Anomalies de l’organisation chez l’homme et les animaux (1832–7)], "and a nasty curious subject it is".

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