From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Professor Charles Cardale Babington
Date:
12 January 1869
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/1 f.144, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
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Oliver overlooked CD’s request about rutaceous flowers. Of precisely which points about the ovules does CD want illustrations?
Criticisms of and suggestions for CD’s draft MS on Nägeli [for Origin, 5th ed.].
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Replies to CD’s questions. Advice on use of term "morphology". Is much struck by CD’s idea that uniformity of an organ throughout a group implies functional inutility; the paradox of this position for classification.
Does not fact that characters important in systematics are often of no use, corroborate CD’s view that such characters, if not detrimental, may persist ad infinitum?
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