From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
25 Feb [1862]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 144
Summary:
Admires JDH’s paper on Arctic plants ["Distribution of Arctic plants", Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. 23 (1862): 251–348]. Such papers compel people to reflect on modification of species;
JDH will be driven to a cooled globe.
Serious erratum in paper.
New and original evidence in case of Greenland. Its flora requires accidental means of transport by ice and currents.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
