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DCP-LETT-2220

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Cardale Babington
Date:
22 Feb [1858]
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library (MS Add.8182: 20)
Summary:

CD and J. D. Hooker have differed on the following question and agreed to ask several botanists: would a good botanist describing a local flora record varieties as readily in large as in small genera?

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Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2231

From:
Charles Cardale Babington
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Mar 1858
Source of text:
DAR 98: A146–7
Summary:

States his belief that there is a tendency to note varieties in the larger genera rather than in the very small ones.

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DCP-LETT-2233

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Cardale Babington
Date:
4 Mar [1858]
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library (MS Add.8182: 21)
Summary:

Notes views of Hooker and George Bentham on monotypic forms.

Has tabulated several floras and finds that large genera show preponderance in numbers of varieties. Now sees his results are quite worthless.

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