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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[early Dec 1856]
Source of text:
DAR 205.5: 213
Summary:

Sends JDH part of MS for chapter 3 of Natural selection ["Possibility of all organic beings crossing"] to be corrected and returned.

JDH’s report of Podostemon flowering cleistogamously under water in Bengal.

[Copious revision by JDH.]

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
1 Dec [1856]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 185
Summary:

Questions JDH on separation of sexes in trees in New Zealand flora.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
10 Dec [1856]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 186
Summary:

CD is convinced of relation between separation of sexes and tree-habit.

Recent hard blows against crossing theory.

CD long tormented by land molluscs on oceanic islands; found transport possible experimentally.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
24 Dec [1856]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 187
Summary:

On the variety of species definitions prevalent among naturalists.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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