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From J. D. Hooker   [7 March 1870]

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Does not give much for botanical results of Round Island, but the zoology is wonderful.

Lyell’s new book [The student’s elements of geology (1870)]. Urges Lyell to make it Elementary principles.

Grove is disgusted with CD for being disquieted by William Thomson: "Take another dose of Huxley’s penultimate address to Geol. Soc." [Q. J. Geol. Soc. Lond. 25 (1869): 28–53].

Author:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [7 Mar 1870]
Classmark:  DAR 103: 42–5
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-6646

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  • Charles Lyell, 2 November 1869 . For Hooker’s objection to CD’s suggestion that temperate plants had crossed through the tropics during a global cool period, see Correspondence vol.  6, letter from J.  D.  Hooker, 9 November 1856 . …
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