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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
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From:
Friedrich Hermann Gustav (Friedrich) Hildebrand
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 July 1866
Source of text:
DAR 166: 204; DAR 49: 150
Summary:

Assures CD of his belief in descent from his first reading of Origin.

Describes a case of dichogamy.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project