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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[20–]22 Feb [1864]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 221a–c
Summary:

Does not know Scott’s qualifications to be curator at Kew.

Frankland’s theory of glaciers is absurd.

Has JDH heard claim that plants in Northern and Southern Hemispheres turn in opposite directions?

Are there plant families with no twining and climbing plants?

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[20 Feb 1864]
Source of text:
DAR 101: 186–7
Summary:

Sends a Corydalis.

Hermann Crüger’s paper [see 4394] splendid, but he has made a mess of propagating Cinchona in Trinidad.

JDH’s opinion of Germans.

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