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From:
Darwin, W. E.
To:
Darwin, Emma
Date:
7 October [1878]
Source of text:
DAR 210.5: 27
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Darwin Family Letters
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Botanical evidence is against F. B. White’s origin of St Helena fauna. JDH holds flora is S. African. Since plants must arrive before insects, if fauna is Palearctic then flora survived glacial period. Flora not Miocene since old and relic orders are absent. Suggests S. African west coastal mountains as insects’ origin.