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To Edward Cresy   [before May 1848?]

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Obliged for account of change in quality of wool. "Some authors will not admit that climate has any perceptible action."

Hopes his health is re-established.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Edward Cresy, Jr
Date:  [before May 1848?]
Classmark:  DAR 143: 303
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-1545

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  • B. Robinson. 2 vols. London. Russell, Henry Stuart. 1845. Exploring excursions in Australia. Journal of the Royal Geographical Society of London 15: 305–27. Variation : The variation of animals and plants under domestication. By Charles Darwin. 2 vols. London: John Murray. …

From J. D. Hooker   13 October 1848

Summary

Hugh Falconer’s misbehaviour.

Waiting out rains at Brian Hodgson’s.

Will make botanical transverse section of Himalayas from plains to snow.

Arrangements to pass Sikkim Rajah’s territory.

No evidence of glacial or diluvial action in sub-Himalayan mountains. No evidence of detrital coal formation.

Hodgson’s replies to CD on introduced species and hybrids.

Author:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  13 Oct 1848
Classmark:  Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (India letters 1847–51: 112–14 JDH/1/10)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-1203

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  • B. H. Hodgson … to the British Museum. London. Hooker, Joseph Dalton. 1854b. Himalayan journals; or, notes of a naturalist in Bengal, the Sikkim and Nepal Himalayas, the Khasia Mountains, &c. 2 vols. London: John Murray. …
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