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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
6 Oct [1848]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 112a
Summary:

CD makes progress with barnacles. Describes "supplemental" males in detail. In working out metamorphosis, their crustacean homologies followed automatically.

CD opposes appending first describer’s name to specific name.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 Oct 1848
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (India letters 1847–51: 112–14 JDH/1/10)
Summary:

Hugh Falconer’s misbehaviour.

Waiting out rains at Brian Hodgson’s.

Will make botanical transverse section of Himalayas from plains to snow.

Arrangements to pass Sikkim Rajah’s territory.

No evidence of glacial or diluvial action in sub-Himalayan mountains. No evidence of detrital coal formation.

Hodgson’s replies to CD on introduced species and hybrids.

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Darwin Correspondence Project