From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
5 Nov [1854]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 152
Summary:
Congratulates JDH on receipt of Royal Medal.
CD gathering facts on aberrant genera of insects.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
15 Nov [1854]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 156
Summary:
Calculating small number of species in aberrant genera of insects and plants.
Joachim Barrande’s "Colonies", Élie de Beaumont’s "lines of Elevation", Forbes’s "Polarity" make CD despair, as these theories lead to conclusions opposite to CD’s from the same classes of facts.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
