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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
8 July [1856]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.134)
Summary:

Thanks CL for loan of [Matthew Fontaine?] Maury’s map.

Discusses possibility of submerged continental extension including Madeira, Canaries, and Azores.

Mentions icebergs as carriers of European plants.

Hooker’s work on Antarctic flora.

Comments on coolness of tropics in glacial period and consequent migrations. Hooker’s views on this.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
8 [July 1856]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 168
Summary:

CD writing species sketch; must cite cases favouring multiple creations.

Requests details on species JDH listed as common to Chile and New Zealand. Notes their genera are mundane.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
8 July [1856]
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 40)
Summary:

Will use Boltenia case cautiously, if at all.

Polyzoa.

Bisexualism in Flustra and Ascidia.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project