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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
10 November 1858
Source of text:
IET MS SC 2
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Nov 1858
Source of text:
DAR 100: 123–4
Summary:

Busy with introductory essay to [The botany of the Antarctic voyage, pt III] Flora Tasmaniae [printed separately as On the flora of Australia (1859)].

Now explains greater abundance of European species in Tasmania than in Fuegia by CD’s "refrigeration" hypothesis.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[20 Nov 1858]
Source of text:
DAR 50: E1–2
Summary:

At work on the introductory essay to Flora Tasmaniae.

Discusses the effects of climate and geography on "vegetable strife".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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