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Darwin expresses extreme admiration and interest in ARW's work, Island Life.
Admires Wallace’s Island life.
Criticises: 1. His view of similar plants on distant mountains – CD prefers previous low-land connections to Wallace’s summit–summit dispersal;
2. Source of warmth for ancient Arctic climate;
3. Origin of S. Australian flora.
CD’s favourite cases in Movement in plants.
Darwin says he pities ARW and that he has hardly ever wished anything so much as to get ARW on the pension list.
Wants to see Frank become F.R.S. before he dies.
Pities Wallace and wants a pension for him very much.
Responds, with some embarrassment, to JDH’s caution on Frank’s F.R.S. prospects.
Island Life.
Thanks for agreeing to propose Frank as F.R.S.
Would have enjoyed discussing Island life.
No summary available.
On Wallace’s pension and Frank’s F.R.S.
No summary available.
Asks JDH to read the enclosed Memorial, sign it, and send it to T. H. Huxley.
Letter of introduction for V. O. Kovalevsky.
Discusses ARW's view on European plants and effects of glaciers on Alpine plants.
Island life continues to stimulate: Wallace ignores effects of glaciers on alpine flora and generally exaggerates those of débâcles and wind dispersal. CD encourages JDH to prepare a geographical address including history of geographical distribution.
CD complains of discomfort, but has not the strength for a project that would let him forget it.
Cheered by JDH’s friendly words.
Wishes he could help JDH with geographical distribution, but the subject has gone out of his mind.
Responds to JDH’s outline history of plant geography.
Considers Humboldt the "greatest scientific traveller who ever lived".
Discusses the origin and rapid radiation of angiosperms in Cretaceous period.
Comments on importance of work of Alphonse de Candolle, Saporta, Axel Blytt.
Responds to JDH on history of plant geography.
Opinion of Humboldt.
Origin of higher phanerogams.
Importance of the occurrence of south temperate forms in the Northern Hemisphere.
Darwin remarks that "As far as I know no one ever discussed the meaning of the relation between representative species before I did & as I suppose Wallace did in his paper before the Linn. Soc. [1858].".
No one could have thought about evolution and not about representative species; yet no one discussed it fully until Origin, including von Baer.
Did not know of Leopold von Buch’s Description physique des îles Canaries [1836] when Origin was published.
"As far as I know no one ever discussed the meaning of the relation between representative species before I did & as I suppose Wallace did in his paper before the Linn. Soc. [1858]."
