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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Jan 1877
Source of text:
DAR 104: 74–6
Summary:

JDH discusses his and others’ experiments on survival of seeds. Impressed with resistance of some seeds and rapid decomposition of others. He wonders about "vitality" in the abstract.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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