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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[11–12 July 1845]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 36, 100: 43–7
Summary:

A son [George Howard Darwin] was born on Wednesday.

Sends queries on Galapagos flora.

Discusses JDH’s comments on [Journal of researches].

CD feels that with his views on descent "really Nat. Hist. becomes a sublimely grand result-giving subject".

"How differently people view the same subject, for I look at insular Floras … as leading to an opposite view to yours."

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
George Robert Waterhouse
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[11 July 1845]
Source of text:
DAR 181: 19
Summary:

Notes the islands, where known, on which CD’s Galapagos beetles were found. Remarks that in none of the species whose place of origin is known, does he have specimens from more than one island.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project