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To J. D. Hooker   [9 May 1863]

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Lists the six honest believers in his species theory in England.

Asa Gray complains that Lyell acts like a judge on species, whereas CD complains of Lyell’s indecision.

CD working on divergence of leaves.

Distribution of Cameroon plants and the glacial theory.

Survival of island relics.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:  [9 May 1863]
Classmark:  DAR 115: 192
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4148

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  • Hooker was writing a paper ( J.  D.  Hooker 1863b ) on a collection of plants from the Cameroons Mountains and was having difficulty explaining the geographical distribution of European genera in the region’s flora; see letter from J.  D.  Hooker, [7 May 1863] and n.  11. See also n.  14, below. Possibly an allusion to a remark made by Erasmus Alvey Darwin , after reading Origin ( Correspondence vol.  7, letter from E.  A.  Darwin, 23 November 1859 ): ‘ …
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