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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 7 Mar 1855]
Source of text:
DAR 104: 216–17
Summary:

CD’s tabulation of colonists curious but explicable.

Working on Tasmanian flora; contemplating general essay on Australian distribution: Tasmania and Australia same alpine species; Swan River flora very peculiar and quite distinct from New South Wales.

Trying to establish new journal at Linnean.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
7 Mar [1855]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 126
Summary:

Latitude overrules everything in distribution. Alpine distributions are like insular. Tabulating proportions.

T. V. Wollaston’s Madeira insects: many flightless, thus not blown to sea. TVW’s insects do not confirm Forbes’s Atlantis.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
George Robert Waterhouse
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[7 Mar 1855]
Source of text:
DAR 181: 20
Summary:

Comparison of skulls of Ichthyosaurus and Cetacea.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project