From J. D. Hooker [before 6 May 1858]1
I took wife to Brighton on Saturday for a week; she is not very strong but not ill.
Andersson finds that every European Willow (47) save one (S. nigricans) is also American—2 I hope you find woody plants less widely distributed than herbaceous & unisexual than hermaphrodite!!!
I call that a rasper—3 He knows the Willows thoroughly & has monographed all the species most carefully & ably after studying all the Europæan Herbaria.
Ever Yrs my dear CD | J D Hooker
I heard from Livingstone all well but Mrs L. who has the 9 months fever (re-mittent) & will have to be left at Cape.—4 Lt. Glover (of Baikies Exped)5 has recovered an old Logarithm book with Mungo Parks writing in it. 6
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Footnotes
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Summary
Reports that N. J. Andersson finds every European willow bar one is also American.
Has heard from David Livingstone and reports on his progress.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-2277
- From
- Joseph Dalton Hooker
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- unstated
- Source of text
- DAR 100: 155
- Physical description
- ALS 2pp inc †
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Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 2277,” accessed on 24 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-2277.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 7