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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
14 July [1857]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 204
Summary:

Asks to borrow several Floras. Must redo calculations as John Lubbock has shown him an important error.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:
14 [July 1857]
Source of text:
DAR 263: 18 (EH88206467)
Summary:

Thanks JL for saving him from "a disgraceful blunder". Following their conversation he has divided the New Zealand flora as JL suggested and finds genera with four or more species are more variable than those with three or less. It will take several weeks to go back over all his material.

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Darwin Correspondence Project