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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 17 Mar 1855]
Source of text:
DAR 104: 210–13
Summary:

JDH criticises C. J. F. Bunbury’s paper on Madeira [J. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Bot.) 1 (1857): 1–35].

Absence of Ophrys on Madeira suggests to JDH a sequence in creation of groups.

Why are flightless insects common in desert?

Australian endemism.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Arthur Henfrey
Date:
17 Mar [1855]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

Can AH give information about D. A. Godron, "De l’espèce et des races" [Mem. Soc. Sci. Lett. & Arts Nancy (1847): 182, 239–88]? CD unable to locate reference.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project