From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[24 July 1866]
Source of text:
DAR 205.2 (letters): 239
Summary:
Working on "Insular floras" lecture for BAAS Nottingham meeting [see 5135].
Puzzled at distribution of Madeiran and Canaries plants and insects.
Supports Forbes’s Atlantis hypothesis [see 956], which he has reread and to which he will allude.
Wollaston disappointing on Madeiran insects.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project