From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
7 Apr [1859]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 10
Summary:
Has read first sheets of JDH’s Flora Tasmaniae [introductory] essay [published separately as On the flora of Australia (1859)]. Criticises lack of evidence supporting views that best marked varieties occur at edges of range of species and that species remain under cultivation for many generations and suddenly begin to vary.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
