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DCP-LETT-2388

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
31 Dec [1858]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 35
Summary:

Replies at length to JDH’s worried reaction to his comments on lowness of Australian plants. CD distinguishes between "competitive highness", i.e., which fauna would be exterminated and which survive if two faunas were placed in competition, and ordinary "highness" of classification.

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DCP-LETT-2377

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.

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DCP-LETT-2379

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
[9 Dec 1858]
Source of text:
DAR 92: A18, A25–8
Summary:

Approves of WED’s moving into CD’s old rooms [at Christ’s College]. Gives fatherly advice on Cambridge’s temptation to idleness. Christmas plans.

Health poor of late.

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DCP-LETT-2384

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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