From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Miles Joseph Berkeley
Date:
4 August 1854
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/2 f.207, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
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Contributor:
Hooker Project
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JDH and F. W. Binney identify Calamites specimens as pith casts. They are cryptogams related to, but higher than, Lycopodiaceae and contradict progression.
Insects found in coal.
Lyell says Stonesfield slate marsupials are actually placentals.
JDH reading Alexander Braun on individuality ["Das Individuum der Pflanze in seinem Verhältniss zur Species", Abh. K. Akad. Wiss. Berlin (Phys. Kl.) (1853): 19–122].