From W. H. Harvey to J. D. Hooker 23 November [1860]
Summary
Has found some funny evidences of transmutation in Cliffortia. Sketches gradual passage "from very unlike to same" – e.g., from three-leafed form to two-leafed.
| Author: | William Henry Harvey |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 23 Nov [1860] |
| Classmark: | DAR 47: 218–19 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2995 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … J. D. Hooker, 4 December [1860] . The Druses formed a significant proportion of the population of Syria, where Hooker had recently been travelling. Harvey’s allusion is to the Damascus massacre of July 1860, in which thousands of Maronite Christians were killed by Druses. The privileged province of Lebanon was ultimately constituted in 1864 …
Document type
| letter | (1) |
Author
| Harvey, W. H. | (1) |
Addressee
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
Correspondent
| Harvey, W. H. | (1) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
