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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[13 or 20] Nov 1843
Source of text:
DAR 114: 1
Summary:

Congratulations on JDH’s safe return.

Henslow has sent CD’s S. American plants to JDH for examination.

Contributor:
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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 Nov 1843
Source of text:
DAR 100: 1–4
Summary:

Thanks for use of CD’s collection.

Comments and queries on the botany of the Southern Hemisphere.

Looks forward to seeing CD’s Galapagos plants.

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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[12 Dec 1843 – 11 Jan 1844]
Source of text:
DAR 104: 206–7
Summary:

Henslow has sent him CD’s Galapagos plants along with Macrae’s. JDH impressed by the island endemism, which "overturns all our preconceived notions" on centres of radiation. Describes the extent, and the sharp demarcation at longitude 60° W, of the American and European Northern Hemisphere floras. CD’s plants among those he is using to do Antarctic flora. Drimys winteri shows a graded series of states down the length of the South American continent.

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[12 Dec 1843]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 2
Summary:

Thanks JDH for short sketch of botanical geography of Southern Hemisphere. Comments on his own S. American collections and observations; notes other Galapagos collections.

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[11 Jan 1844]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 3
Summary:

Queries on ratios of species to genera on southern islands. CD’s observations on distribution of Galapagos organisms, and on S. American fossils, and facts he has gathered since, lead him to conclusion that species are not immutable; "it is like confessing a murder".

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
22 [Jan 1844 - Mar 1882]
Source of text:
Sotheby’s (dealers) (14 and 28 May 1983)
Summary:

Discusses books returned

and invites him to Down for a few days.

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[27 Jan 1844]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 4
Summary:

C. G. Ehrenberg would like some earth from Galapagos, Tierra del Fuego, and the Falklands; wishes to hunt for Infusoria.

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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 Jan 1844
Source of text:
DAR 100: 5–7
Summary:

Remarks on geographical divisions of the flora of the Southern Hemisphere.

JDH beginning Galapagos plants. Value of studying insular floras with respect to inquiries about adaptation of species.

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[3–17 Feb 1844]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 5
Summary:

Thanks for information for Ehrenberg.

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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[23 Feb – 6 Mar 1844]
Source of text:
DAR 100: 10–11
Summary:

Island floras; relationships with mainland. Ranges of species in mundane genera.

Galapagos plants one-third done.

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
23 Feb [1844]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 6
Summary:

Has just completed Volcanic islands.

Sends queries on Galapagos flora in particular and island floras in general; also on relationship of wide-ranging species to wide-ranging genera.

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[6 Mar 1844]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 7
Summary:

Affinity of Galapagos with nearest Pacific islands. Relationship between ranges of species in time and space. Comparison of Malden Island and Galapagos plants. Affinities of Oceania plants with continental floras.

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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Mar 1844
Source of text:
DAR 100: 8–9
Summary:

Thanks for information on Malden Island. Comments on its plants and their relationship to the Galapagos flora. Discusses the flora of Oceania. Gives his opinion on the extent of the uniformity in species and forms amongst South Sea Islands. Large genera are more widely diffused and have a larger proportion of species with wide ranges.

Seeks advice on expense of preparing plates [for Flora Antarctica].

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
11 Mar [1844]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 8
Summary:

Advice to JDH on problems of printing and publishing.

Remarks on differences of species between islets of Galapagos group.

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
16 Mar [1844]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 9
Summary:

Asks JDH to forward publishing information to J. E. Gray.

Has received JDH’s infusorial specimens for Ehrenberg.

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
31 Mar [1844]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 10
Summary:

Thanks for JDH’s interesting details about the Galapagos.

Clarification of CD’s query about the relationship between the range of a genus and the ranges of its constituent species.

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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 Apr 1844
Source of text:
DAR 100: 12–13
Summary:

Answer to CD’s query on genera and species ranges.

Comments on typical forms.

Preparing first part of Galapagos plants for printing.

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[17 Apr 1844]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 18
Summary:

Thanks for information on printing charges

and for clarifying "typical forms".

In a few days CD will go away for six weeks.

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
1 June [1844]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 11
Summary:

Asks if J. E. Gray has returned [printing] estimates for Zoology.

Henslow has some Galapagos plants which he forgot to forward to JDH.

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
29 [June 1844]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 12
Summary:

Encloses letter from Ehrenberg [758] about Infusoria.

Intends to visit Kew.

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