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To J. D. Hooker 23 November 1880
Summary
Admires Wallace’s Island life.
Criticises: 1. His view of similar plants on distant mountains – CD prefers previous low-land connections to Wallace’s summit–summit dispersal;
2. Source of warmth for ancient Arctic climate;
3. Origin of S. Australian flora.
CD’s favourite cases in Movement in plants.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 23 Nov 1880 |
| Classmark: | DAR 95: 496–9 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12841 |
From J. D. Hooker 22 November 1880
Summary
Praise for Movement in plants, lately arrived.
Praise for Wallace’s Island life
and astonishment that he could be a spiritualist.
Differs with Wallace on age of SW. Australian flora. JDH ascribes its peculiarities to isolation by an inland sea.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 22 Nov 1880 |
| Classmark: | DAR 104: 142–5 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12838 |
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- … J. D. Hooker, 18 December 1879 . Wallace remarked that parts of south-western Australia were especially rich in ‘purely Australian types’ of flora, and concluded that it was a ‘remnant of the more extensive and more isolated portion of the continent in which the peculiar Australian flora was principally developed’ (see Wallace 1880a , pp. 463–4). Hooker had written an essay on the flora of Australia and Tasmania ( J. D. Hooker 1859 ); …
Author
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
Addressee
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
Correspondent
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Hooker, J. D. |
