From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
11 Mar [1858]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 228
Summary:
JDH’s "objection" that small local genera do not vary and mundane ones do, is exactly CD’s point. Local floras useful to test idea that varieties are incipient species. Same genus in different countries cannot be lumped.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
