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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[2 May 1857]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 195
Summary:

JDH has shaved the hair off the alpine plant.

CD apologises for his criticism.

Apparent but false relations of plant structure to climate: heath-like foliage of all Cape of Good Hope plants.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[3 May 1857]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 196
Summary:

JDH’s last letter demolishes woolly alpine plant theory.

Correlation of apetalous flowers and cold climate.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Leonard Horner
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
10 May 1857
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 171
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
13 May [1857]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 15
Summary:

Discusses family health and affairs.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
16 [May 1857]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 197
Summary:

Asks JDH’s opinion, and botanical evidence, on important law: parts that are highly developed in comparison to other allied species are very variable.

Interest in hairiness of alpine plants revived by reading A. Moquin-Tandon [Éléments de tératologie végétale (1841)]; correlation with dryness. CD seeks interpretation independent of direct environmental effect.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[c. 24 May 1857]
Source of text:
DAR 165: 97
Summary:

Discusses difficulties involved in deciding which genera are protean in the light of some comments by H. C. Watson.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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