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DCP-LETT-2369

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[23 Nov 1858]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 251
Summary:

CD declines to write Lyell éloge [for Copley Medal] because of his ill health.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-2371

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
24–5 Nov [1858]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 255
Summary:

Praises JDH’s Australian introduction.

Disputes JDH’s emphasis on SE. and SW. Australian flora.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-2386

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
27 [Nov 1858]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 258
Summary:

Memorial concerning British Museum collection.

Relation of Cape of Good Hope and Australian flora a great trouble. CD’s high estimation of importance of glacial period for distribution.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-2377

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
3 Dec [1858]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 256
Summary:

Examining JDH’s list. CD struck by how many plants are common to Europe, S. America, and Australia.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-2384

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
24 Dec [1858]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 257
Summary:

Wide-ranging species more "improved" than relics in small areas because they exist in large numbers and thus are subject to intense competition.

His abstract is 330 folio pages long so far.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-2388

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
31 Dec [1858]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 35
Summary:

Replies at length to JDH’s worried reaction to his comments on lowness of Australian plants. CD distinguishes between "competitive highness", i.e., which fauna would be exterminated and which survive if two faunas were placed in competition, and ordinary "highness" of classification.

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