From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Nov 1858
Source of text:
DAR 100: 123–4
Summary:
Busy with introductory essay to [The botany of the Antarctic voyage, pt III] Flora Tasmaniae [printed separately as On the flora of Australia (1859)].
Now explains greater abundance of European species in Tasmania than in Fuegia by CD’s "refrigeration" hypothesis.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project