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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[23–5 Mar 1862]
Source of text:
DAR 101: 30
Summary:

Identifies Calanthe masuca.

Asa Gray would not quarrel with them – "snubbing from us may have done him more good than our sympathy".

If CD means the old Vaucher, he was considered a very accurate, acute, able observer.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[23 Mar 1862]
Source of text:
DAR 101: 27–9; American Philosophical Society Library (Hooker papers, B/H76.2)
Summary:

Lighthearted thoughts on "the development of an Aristocracy" after a visit to Walcot Hall, Shropshire.

On CD’s point about the effect of changed conditions on the reproductive organs, JDH does not see why this is not "itself a variation, not necessarily induced by domestication, but accompanying some variety artificially selected".

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