From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
30 July [1866]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 294, 294b
Summary:
His reasons for rejecting Atlantis hypothesis connecting Madeira and Canary Islands.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
His reasons for rejecting Atlantis hypothesis connecting Madeira and Canary Islands.
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Questions for his lecture on "Insular floras".
Comments on CD’s criticism of Atlantis. Has no fixed opinion on continental extensions. Great objections to hypotheses of CD and Forbes: botanical to CD’s; geological to Forbes’s. Will point out that natural selection is necessary to both hypotheses.
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