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DCP-LETT-11713

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
3 Oct [1878]
Source of text:
DAR 95: 474
Summary:

Wants Oxalis specimen named; is fascinated by cotyledonary movements of the genus.

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DCP-LETT-11714

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Oct 1878
Source of text:
DAR 104: 115–17
Summary:

Frank asked to summarise work with CD for use in JDH’s Royal Society address.

Work with A. Gray shows Colorado plants closer to Altai than to E. or W. America.

Work with J. Ball shows Moroccan plants very distinct from nearby Canaries.

JDH on Royal Commission to Paris Exhibition.

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DCP-LETT-11715

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
5 Oct [1878]
Source of text:
DAR 95: 475–6
Summary:

Before JDH discusses flora of Canary Islands CD suggests he read F. B. White’s paper [see 11707], which explains stocking of Atlantic island fauna as due to changed currents during [last, or Miocene] northern glacial period.

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DCP-LETT-11718

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.

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