From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
6 Aug 1881
Source of text:
DAR 95: 518–23
Summary:
Responds to JDH’s outline history of plant geography.
Considers Humboldt the "greatest scientific traveller who ever lived".
Discusses the origin and rapid radiation of angiosperms in Cretaceous period.
Comments on importance of work of Alphonse de Candolle, Saporta, Axel Blytt.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
