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To J. D. Hooker 22 June [1869]
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The house at Barmouth.
His poor health.
Bentham’s interesting Linnean Society Address ["On geographical biology", Proc. Linn. Soc. Lond. (1869): lxv–c].
CD particularly wishes to know how botanists agreed with zoologists on distribution.
Still thinks isolation more important in preserving old forms than Bentham is inclined to believe.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 22 June [1869] |
Classmark: | DAR 94: 134–6 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6793 |
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- … 11 February [1857] ( Correspondence vol. 6). See letter to J. D. Hooker, [before 7 May …
- … Hooker 1866 ). See letter from J. D. Hooker, 6 June 1869 ; CD refers to Nils Johan Andersson . CD had written in 1845: ‘I have little doubt that Cocos isl d . , north of the Galapagos Archipelago, from its insulated position, & judging from the Galapagos Arch. would have a most peculiar flora & fauna’ ( Correspondence vol. 3, letter to Edward Forbes, 13 May [1845] ; see also Correspondence vol. 6, letter to Charles Lyell, 11 February [1857] ). …
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Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
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Hooker, J. D. | (1) |