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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
10 November 1858
Source of text:
IET MS SC 2
Summary:
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Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Busy with introductory essay to [The botany of the Antarctic voyage, pt III] Flora Tasmaniae [printed separately as On the flora of Australia (1859)].
Now explains greater abundance of European species in Tasmania than in Fuegia by CD’s "refrigeration" hypothesis.
At work on the introductory essay to Flora Tasmaniae.
Discusses the effects of climate and geography on "vegetable strife".