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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[29 Dec 1861]
Source of text:
DAR 101: 1, 2a–c
Summary:

Asks CD whether he hears from Asa Gray. JDH’s opinion of the crisis [Trent case, Nov 1861] and the American Civil War.

Julius von Haast alludes to glacial drift in Middle Island of New Zealand.

Backwardness of JDH’s son, Willy.

Encloses a reference from Daniel Oliver which may be useful.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[30 Dec] 1861 or [6 Jan] 1862
Source of text:
DAR 101: 3–4
Summary:

Glad CD has given up on Acropera ovules.

Doubts phanerogams less different in extreme forms [than Crustacea].

No systematic parallelism between plants and animals.

Offers list of Arctic plants with their colours. Asks CD whether it is useful to add colour to [descriptions of] plants.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
30 November 1861
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library: DAR 181: 6
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project