From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
3 Jan [1860]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 1
Summary:
High praise and detailed comments on JDH’s introductory essay to Flora Tasmaniae, which CD has now finished reading.
Disagrees on power of transoceanic migration. Advocates glacial transport of plants.
CD’s response to reviews of Origin in Saturday Review [8 (1859): 775–6] and John Lindley’s in Gardeners’ Chronicle [but see 2651].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
