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From J. D. Hooker 7 October 1878
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Botanical evidence is against F. B. White’s origin of St Helena fauna. JDH holds flora is S. African. Since plants must arrive before insects, if fauna is Palearctic then flora survived glacial period. Flora not Miocene since old and relic orders are absent. Suggests S. African west coastal mountains as insects’ origin.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 7 Oct 1878 |
| Classmark: | DAR 104: 118–20 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11718 |
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- … J. D. Hooker, 5 October [1878] and n. 6). In the issue, now in the unbound journal collection in the Darwin Archive–CUL, CD scored a section of F. B. White 1878 , p. 458, from ‘fauna is Palæarctic’ to ‘Syria’, and underlined ‘one or two genera of plants’. The term Palaearctic (referring to temperate parts of Europe and Asia) was coined by Philip Lutley Sclater , as one of his six zoological regions ( Sclater 1857 ). …
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| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
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| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
