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DCP-LETT-6800

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 June 1869
Source of text:
DAR 103: 18–21
Summary:

Recounts the trip back from St Petersburg – visits to botanic gardens and museums throughout Western Europe.

Pleased that CD admired Bentham’s address [see 6793]. JDH had read it in MS and modified some very heterodox passages about insularity. CD has hit the flaw in it.

F. A. W. Miquel is a convert.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 June 1869
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library: DAR 103: 18-21
Summary:

Reflects how Bentham might have been more cautious had he read ARW's volumes.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6801

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alexander Goodman More
Date:
24 June [1869]
Source of text:
DAR 146: 408
Summary:

Asks AGM to observe fertilisation of Epipactis palustris. Has found that E. latifolia is fertilised by wasps.

Making revisions for French edition of Orchids.

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