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From J. D. Hooker   22 November 1880

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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 ); …