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To J. D. Hooker 15 October [1859]
Summary
Book finished some two weeks.
Feeling much better at Ilkley.
Lyell thinks favourably of book but "staggered" at lengths to which CD goes.
Which continental botanists should receive presentation copies?
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 15 Oct [1859] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 23 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2504 |
To J. D. Hooker 20 January [1859]
Summary
At work on abstract.
Continues argument on effectiveness of dispersal. Has doubts about relationship of isolation to highness of Australian flora. Questions about survival of European plants introduced in Australia.
CD receives the Wollaston Medal of the Geological Society.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 20 Jan [1859] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 2 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2401 |
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- … 1857]). The letter in which Mueller described the spread of cultivated plants has not been found. See also letter to J. D. Hooker, …
- … 1857), which he had previously borrowed from Charles Lyell ( Correspondence vol. 6, letter to Charles Lyell, 3 May [1856] ). He recorded having read the paper in August 1856 ( Correspondence vol. 4, Appendix IV, 128: 20). CD refers to the letter from J. D. Hooker, [ …
To J. D. Hooker 3 May [1859]
Summary
CD favours occurrence of reversions, although lack of experiments forces one to vague opinions. Reversions oppose only the inheritance not the occurrence of variation. Discusses relation of reversion, direct influence of conditions, and selection.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 3 May [1859] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 13 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2457 |
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| letter | (3) |
Author
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
Addressee
| Hooker, J. D. | (3) |
Correspondent
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
| Hooker, J. D. |
