From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Oct 1878
Source of text:
DAR 104: 118–20
Summary:
Botanical evidence is against F. B. White’s origin of St Helena fauna. JDH holds flora is S. African. Since plants must arrive before insects, if fauna is Palearctic then flora survived glacial period. Flora not Miocene since old and relic orders are absent. Suggests S. African west coastal mountains as insects’ origin.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
