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DCP-LETT-1938

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
5 Aug [1856]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 173
Summary:

Agrees that Lyell’s letters shed no new light on extensions issue. Continental extensions: opposes their being hypothesised all over world.

Commonality of alpine plants damns both extension and migration.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-1940

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
7 Aug [1856]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 174
Summary:

Antarctic plants most difficult to account for on any theory. Lyell’s iceberg transportal of seeds.

Are there more representative species of American origin in Tristan da Cunha than in Kerguelen land?

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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