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DCP-LETT-5047

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[6 Apr 1866]
Source of text:
DAR 102: 69–70
Summary:

Reference to description of Begonia phyllomaniaca.

Thanks for the explicit account of Pangenesis. Thinks he now follows CD’s ideas but Pangenesis is very difficult and speculative.

Oliver has lost his little girl.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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JHC1507

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
General William Munro
Date:
20 April 1866
Source of text:
MUN/1 f.128, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC1603

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Robert Oliver Cunningham
Date:
25 April 1866
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/3 f.117, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

DCP-LETT-5076

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after 28 Apr 1866]
Source of text:
DAR 102: 60
Summary:

Orchids.

Lyell has written to JDH about coal-plants of Melville Island.

Has glanced at first edition of Principles and has no doubt that Lyell meant the whole globe was cooler when land was massed at poles. JDH doubts this.

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