21 Items
To J. D. Hooker [9 May 1863]
Summary
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 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … 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 ): ‘ …
Document type
letter | (21) |
Author
Darwin, C. R. | (12) |
Hooker, J. D. | (7) |
Bentham, George | (1) |
Treviranus, L. C. | (1) |
Addressee
Darwin, C. R. | (9) |
Hooker, J. D. | (6) |
Lyell, Charles | (2) |
Bentham, George | (1) |
Fox, W. D. | (1) |
Correspondent
Darwin, C. R. | (21) |
Hooker, J. D. | (13) |
Bentham, George | (2) |
Lyell, Charles | (2) |
Fox, W. D. | (1) |