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DCP-LETT-1597

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
5 Nov [1854]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 152
Summary:

Congratulates JDH on receipt of Royal Medal.

CD gathering facts on aberrant genera of insects.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-1601

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
15 Nov [1854]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 156
Summary:

Calculating small number of species in aberrant genera of insects and plants.

Joachim Barrande’s "Colonies", Élie de Beaumont’s "lines of Elevation", Forbes’s "Polarity" make CD despair, as these theories lead to conclusions opposite to CD’s from the same classes of facts.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-1600

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[6 Nov 1854]
Source of text:
DAR 205.9: 385
Summary:

Fossil leaves from Disko Island.

JDH to begin working out the botanical geography of the polar sea.

Has not forgotten CD’s request on aberrant species.

Has taken a house on Richmond Hill.

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DCP-LETT-1607

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[15 Nov 1854]
Source of text:
DAR 205.9: 386
Summary:

George Bentham’s list of aberrant plant genera. JDH appended the number of species in each genus according to E. G. Steudel’s catalogue [Nomenclator botanicus (1840–1)] and according to JDH and Bentham.

JDH speculates on effect of splitting Australia longitudinally on distribution; it becomes an argument for new creations.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-1629

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[3 Nov 1854]
Source of text:
DAR 104: 214–15
Summary:

JDH’s contempt for R. I. Murchison.

There is a Cyperus species and a Pteris species endemic to hot volcanoes of Ischia. Why are there no other migrators?

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