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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Samuel Pickworth Woodward
Date:
18 July 1856
Source of text:
DAR 148: 378
Summary:

Thanks for information about variability in shells.

Comments on Harvey’s Seaside book [1849].

"I am growing as bad as the worst about species and hardly have a vestige of belief in the permanence of species left in me".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
19 July [1856]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 171
Summary:

Multiple creations.

Necessity for crossing in plants and animals: JDH to take up the subject; explains separate sexes in trees.

Continental extensions.

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
30 July [1856]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 172, 165, and 167
Summary:

CD’s predicament with continental extensions: they would remove argument for multiple creations, yet he opposes the doctrine. Lyell will not express an opinion on this.

Lyell fears mutability would lead to more specific names.

Encloses copy of letters to Lyell [1910 and 1917].

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
26 [July 1856]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 175
Summary:

Tristan da Cunha flora.

Aquatic plants.

Density and diversity of plants in small plots in Kent, Keeling Islands, and Himalayas.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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