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DCP-LETT-2404

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 Jan 1859
Source of text:
DAR 100: 131–2
Summary:

Relieved by Wallace’s letter.

At work on introductory essay to Flora Tasmaniae.

European plants naturalised in Australia are almost all adapted to invading disturbed ground.

JDH supports Asa Gray against Alphonse de Candolle as foreign member of Royal Society.

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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 January 1859
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library: DAR 100: 131-2
Summary:

Hooker is “relieved and pleased” by the letters from ARW that Darwin had forwarded regarding ARW’s reaction to the joint reading of their papers at the Linnean Society in 1858. He discusses his progress on his Australian article. [Hooker, J. D. 1859. On The Flora of Australia: Its Origin, Affinities, and Distribution. In: Botany of the Antarctic Expedition. Part 3: Flora of Tasmania, vol. 1. London: Lovell Reeve.] He discusses potential candidates for the Royal Society’s new Foreign Fellow.

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Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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