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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Cardale Babington
Date:
22 Feb [1858]
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library (MS Add.8182: 20)
Summary:

CD and J. D. Hooker have differed on the following question and agreed to ask several botanists: would a good botanist describing a local flora record varieties as readily in large as in small genera?

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Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Cardale Babington
Date:
4 Mar [1858]
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library (MS Add.8182: 21)
Summary:

Notes views of Hooker and George Bentham on monotypic forms.

Has tabulated several floras and finds that large genera show preponderance in numbers of varieties. Now sees his results are quite worthless.

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Darwin Correspondence Project