To J. D. Hooker 6 August 1881
Summary
Responds to JDH’s outline history of plant geography.
Considers Humboldt the "greatest scientific traveller who ever lived".
Discusses the origin and rapid radiation of angiosperms in Cretaceous period.
Comments on importance of work of Alphonse de Candolle, Saporta, Axel Blytt.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 6 Aug 1881 |
Classmark: | DAR 95: 518–23 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13277 |
Matches: 10 hits
- … Essay on the immigration of the Norwegian flora during alternating rainy and dry periods. …
- … the phenomena and causes of insular faunas and floras, including a revision and attempted …
- … 54, 362–86. Hooker, Joseph Dalton. 1844–7. Flora Antarctica. 1 vol. and 1 vol. of plates. …
- … Joseph Dalton. 1853. Introductory essay to the flora of New Zealand. London: Lovell Reeve. …
- … seeing how little we know of the old Floras I will now jot down without any order a few …
- … So is their relation to the existing flora of the U. States under an evolutionary point …
- … and introduced plants ( Hooker 1881 , pp. 737–8). On the flora of New Zealand, see …
- … Hooker 1853 ; on the flora of Tierra del Fuego, see Hooker 1844–7 ; see also Hooker 1881 , …
- … others on the history of North American flora from the Cretaceous period to the present ( …
- … Essay on the immigration of the Norwegian flora ( Blytt 1876 ; see Correspondence vol. 24, …
From J. D. Hooker 4 August 1881
Summary
Outlines address to York BAAS meeting on history of geographical distribution. Organising theme: advancement in this science based on ideas enunciated by scientific voyagers. Asks CD’s advice.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 4 Aug 1881 |
Classmark: | DAR 104: 154–7 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13272 |
Matches: 8 hits
- … the distribution of the existing fauna and flora of the British Isles, and the geological …
- … the phenomena and causes of insular faunas and floras, including a revision and attempted …
- … latitudes; Hooker added that the affinity of floras was now understood through the theory …
- … 6: 377–452. Hooker, Joseph Dalton. 1853–5. Flora Novæ-Zelandiæ. 2 vols. Pt 2 of The botany …
- … of lands & Forbe’s Essay on the British Flora. 4. The establishment of the permanence …
- … discussed Edward Forbes ’s essay on British flora ( Forbes 1846 ; Hooker 1881 , pp. 731– …
- … s essay on the affinities between the floras of eastern Asia and eastern North America had …
- … upon the relations of the Japanese flora to that of North America, and of other parts of …
From Wilhelm Breitenbach 9 September 1881
Summary
Thanks for gift of Movement in plants.
Plans botanical research in Brazil.
Hermann von Jhering is conducting experiments on snakes.
WB obliged to work as newspaper correspondent.
Plans breeding experiments on dimorphic plants.
Author: | Wilhelm Breitenbach |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 9 Sept 1881 |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 295 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13325 |
Matches: 6 hits
- … Ihnen Samen senden. Ich beabsichtige, die Flora unser Provinz zu bearbeiten. Könnten Sie …
- … Karl Friedrich Philipp von, ed. 1840–1906. Flora Brasiliensis, enumeratio plantarum in …
- … send you seeds. I intend to work on the Flora of our province. Could you perhaps tell me …
- … wenden, wenn dies geschehen kann? Martius’ “Flora brasiliensis” besitze ich nicht, und in …
- … were possible? I do not possess Martius’ “Flora brasiliensis”, and in the library here it …
- … of Karl Friedrich Philipp von Martius ’s Flora brasiliensis ( Martius ed. 1840–1906 ) had …
To J. D. Hooker 3 and 4 September [1881]
Summary
Praises JDH’s York address.
S. B. J. Skertchly has paralleled Axel Blytt’s work in Cambridgeshire fens.
JDH too cautious on southern glacial period.
Is Kew interested in Azores plants collected by Arruda Furtado, a local inhabitant and an evolutionist?
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 3 and 4 Sept 1881 |
Classmark: | DAR 95: 532–5 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13316 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … Essay on the immigration of the Norwegian flora during alternating rainy and dry periods. …
- … s work on the immigration of the Norwegian flora in alternate rainy and dry periods as an …
- … argument (p. 11) “the several S. temperate floras are more intimately related &c &c. I …
- … had written, ‘the several south temperate floras are more intimately related to those of …
To J. D. Hooker 26 [February 1881]
Summary
Island life continues to stimulate: Wallace ignores effects of glaciers on alpine flora and generally exaggerates those of débâcles and wind dispersal. CD encourages JDH to prepare a geographical address including history of geographical distribution.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 26 [Feb 1881] |
Classmark: | DAR 95: 509–12 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13067 |
From J. D. Hooker 20 August 1881
Summary
Is making final preparations for his address [at York BAAS meeting] and questions CD on specific points.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 20 Aug 1881 |
Classmark: | DAR 104: 162–3 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13291 |
From J. D. Hooker 11 August 1881
Summary
Working on York BAAS address; finds CD’s comments helpful. JDH writes detailed response and expansion.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 11 Aug 1881 |
Classmark: | DAR 104: 158–61 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13286 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … Essay on the immigration of the Norwegian flora during alternating rainy and dry periods. …
- … on the immigration of the Norwegian flora ( Blytt 1876 ) is discussed in Hooker 1881 , pp. …
- … matter. — I am doubtful about going into the Flora of past ages, beyond the tertiary. I …
- … with Saporta’s view of the polar origin of Floras in my last R.S. Address. I do not see …
To J. D. Hooker 12 August 1881
Summary
Responds to JDH on history of plant geography.
Opinion of Humboldt.
Origin of higher phanerogams.
Importance of the occurrence of south temperate forms in the Northern Hemisphere.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 12 Aug 1881 |
Classmark: | DAR 95: 524–7 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13288 |
To Axel Blytt 13 July 1881
Summary
Thanks AB for his letter, his essay on climates ["Theorie der wechselnden kontinentalen und insularen Klimate", Bot. Jahrb. 2 (1882): 1–50, 177–84], and for his photograph. Sends his own.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Axel Gudbrand (Axel) Blytt |
Date: | 13 July 1881 |
Classmark: | Det Kongelige Bibliotek, Copenhagen |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13244 |
To Williams & Norgate 20 February 1881
Summary
Queries account for book "Fauna Neapol. II"
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Williams & Norgate |
Date: | 20 Feb 1881 |
Classmark: | J. A. Stargardt (dealers) (Catalogue 670, 7 and 8 July 1998, lot 414) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13058F |
From Anton Dohrn 18 February 1881
Summary
Belated birthday greetings
and reminiscences of CD’s help to the Station, which continues to prosper. A recent innovation is the establishment of the Zoologische Jahresbericht edited by J. V. Carus.
Author: | Felix Anton (Anton) Dohrn |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 18 Feb 1881 |
Classmark: | DAR 162: 221 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13056 |
From Wilhelm Breitenbach [before 20 June 1881]
Summary
Arrived in Brazil three months ago. Studying insects and plants, but work suffers from lack of scientific literature.
Fritz Müller has written to him to observe relations between ants and plants.
Writing popular articles about evolution for German newspaper in Brazil.
Sends paper from Kosmos.
Expects to spend several years in Brazil.
Author: | Wilhelm Breitenbach |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [before 20 June 1881] |
Classmark: | DAR 202: 16 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12962 |
To Francisco de Arruda Furtado 3 and 6 July 1881
Summary
Thanks Fd’AF for his interesting letter. CD suggests observations it would be worth making [in the Azores] although he is too old to make any direct use of them. Fauna and flora of different islands should be compared and the plants and animals from all high mountain summits collected. Suggests Fd’AF investigate the presence of glacial deposits and fossils on the islands. Survival of eggs in salt-water should be tested, as the wide distribution of lizards, land molluscs, and earthworms is a perplexing problem.
Will be very glad to read the essays Fd’AF sent.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Francisco de Arruda Furtado |
Date: | 3 and 6 July 1881 |
Classmark: | Historical Archive of the Museums of the University of Lisbon (PT/MUL/FAF/C/01/0017) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13231 |
To Francisco de Arruda Furtado 2 September 1881
Summary
Sends a copy of A. R. Wallace’s work [The geographical distribution of animals (1876)].
Advises Fd’AF on how to carry out his work, "Keep notes & go on accumulating facts". CD will write to J. D. Hooker about the plants Fd’AF has collected.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Francisco de Arruda Furtado |
Date: | 2 Sept 1881 |
Classmark: | Historical Archive of the Museums of the University of Lisbon (PT/MUL/FAF/C/01/0021) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13313 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … the phenomena and causes of insular faunas and floras, including a revision and attempted …
To J. D. Hooker 20 June [1881]
Summary
Cheered by JDH’s friendly words.
Wishes he could help JDH with geographical distribution, but the subject has gone out of his mind.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 20 June [1881] |
Classmark: | DAR 95: 516–17 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13211 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … die Bewegungen der Blätter bei Oxalis . Flora 54: 241–6. Hooker, Joseph Dalton. 1881. On …
To A. R. Wallace 2 January 1881
Summary
On land migration of plants. The case in Nature is striking but CD doubts that seeds of plants could be blown from mountains of Abyssinia to mountains of Madagascar.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
Date: | 2 Jan 1881 |
Classmark: | The British Library (Add MS 46434) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12968 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … on the close similarity between the alpine flora of Madagascar and that of the mountain …
To Marianne North 2 August 1881
Summary
Obliged for the shrub "Australian Sheep" [Raoulia eximia] and pleased to have seen MN’s Australian pictures. Can still recall scenes from various countries with vividness.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Marianne North |
Date: | 2 Aug 1881 |
Classmark: | North 1894, 2: 216 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13269A |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Dalton. 1864–7. Handbook of the New Zealand flora: a systematic description of the native …
From A. R. Wallace 1 January 1881
Summary
ARW’s view of migration of plants from mountain to mountain gains support from case described in Nature [23 (1880): 125–6] by J. G. Baker. Identical species of alpine plants found in African mountains and Madagascar.
Author: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 1 Jan 1881 |
Classmark: | DAR 271.6: a6 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12964 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … the phenomena and causes of insular faunas and floras, including a revision and attempted …
To Francis Darwin 27 May 1881
Summary
Dispatches chapters six and seven [of Earthworms].
Asks for any opinions on V. Hensen and his book, Physiologie der Zeugung [1881], which seems interesting.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
Date: | 27 May 1881 |
Classmark: | DAR 211: 77 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13179 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Meddelanden af Societas pro Fauna et Flora Fennica 8: 1–155. Orchids : On the various …
From Francis Darwin 17 June 1881
Summary
Glad CD approves of diaheliotropic paper. Reports on experiments with Carex and Yucca. Discusses translation of ‘Växtbook’ from Swedish. Heard some excellent music the previous night.
Author: | Francis Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 17 June 1881 |
Classmark: | DAR 274.1: 73 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13208F |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Meddelanden af Societas pro Fauna et Flora Fennica 8: 1–155. Movement in plants : The …
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Darwin, Francis | (2) |
Blytt, Axel | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (25) |
Hooker, J. D. | (9) |
Arruda Furtado, Francisco de | (3) |
Darwin, Francis | (3) |
Breitenbach, Wilhelm | (2) |
Suggested reading
Summary
Contemporary writing Anon., The English matron: A practical manual for young wives, (London, 1846). Anon., The English gentlewoman: A practical manual for young ladies on their entrance to society, (Third edition, London, 1846). Becker, L. E.…
Darwin’s reading notebooks
Summary
In April 1838, Darwin began recording the titles of books he had read and the books he wished to read in Notebook C (Notebooks, pp. 319–28). In 1839, these lists were copied and continued in separate notebooks. The first of these reading notebooks (DAR 119…
Matches: 28 hits
- … & imported well worth studying probably— Thunberg Flora Japonica [Thunberg 1784] in …
- … Ryan on marriage [Ryan 1831] (read) Babbington on Flora of Channel Isl d . [Babington 1839 …
- … of the Caledonian Horticultural Society ].— Flora of St Helena 1825 [A. Watson 1825] in …
- … Himallaya & high Peru [Meyen 1836].— Phillippi on Flora of Sicily [Philippi 1836].— …
- … 1781]. Linn. on insects [Linnaeus 1781b]. Forsskahl on Flora of insects [Forsskahl 1781]. Avelin on …
- … trees of America [Downing 1845] 24 th Hopkirks Flora Anomala [Hopkirk 1817] July 8 …
- … ]. (since I read up old) (read) all Leidy, a Flora & Fauna within living Animals [Leidy …
- … Hornschuck Essay on the Sporting of Plants. in the ‘Flora’ or separate [Hornschuch 1848] quoted in …
- … 97 [DAR *128: 169] Wahlenberg Flora Suecica [Wahlenberg 1824–6]— most curious …
- … Ramond Acad. of Sci. Jan. 1826 [G. Cuvier 1830]. Flora of Pyrenees [Ramond de Carbonnières 1799–1801 …
- … 50 c. [Goethe 1837] [DAR *128: 150] Heers Flora Helvetica Tertiaria, translated …
- … [Pitton de Tournefort 1718]. skimmed 27. Gmelin Flora Siberica [Gmelin 1747–69] 1855. …
- … Primitiæ floræ sarnicæ; or, an outline of the flora of the Channel Islands of Jersey, …
- … Stephan Friedrich Ladislaus. 1836. Bemerkungen über die Flora der Südseeinseln. Annalen der Wien …
- … 119: 17b Forsskahl, Jonas Gustav. 1781. The flora of insects. In Linnaeus, ed., Select …
- … 119: 17a Gmelin, Johann Georg. 1747–69. Flora Sibirica sive historia plantarum …
- … 119: 22b Hooker, Joseph Dalton. 1844–7. Flora Antarctica . Pt 1 of The botany of the …
- … Library.] 128: 8 Hopkirk, Thomas. 1817. Flora Anomoia. A general view of the …
- … Friedrich. 1848. Ueber Ausartung der Pflanzen. Flora 31: 17–28; 33–44; 50–64; 66–8. *128: 177 …
- … London. 119: 18b Leidy, Joseph. 1853. A flora and fauna within living animals. …
- … 128: 13 Michaux, François André. 1803. Flora Boreali-Americana . 2 vols. Paris. *119: …
- … 163 Philippi, Rudolph Armandus. 1836. Ueber die Flora Siciliens, im Vergleiche zu den …
- … natural history of the Himalayan mountains, and of the flora of Cashmere . 2 vols. London. …
- … and physick. To which is added the calendar of flora . London. [Other eds.] 119: 11a …
- … . London. 128: 6 Thunberg, Carl Peter. 1784. Flora Japonica . Lipsiae. *119: 6v. …
- … 21b Torrey, John and Gray, Asa. 1838–43. A flora of North America: containing …
- … Zurich. *128: 169 ——. 1824–6. Flora Suecica . Upsalla. *128: 169 Walker, …
- … *119: 19v.; 119: 16a Watson, Alexander. 1825. Flora Sta Helenica . St Helena. *119: 7v …
Women’s scientific participation
Summary
Observers | Fieldwork | Experimentation | Editors and critics | Assistants Darwin’s correspondence helps bring to light a community of women who participated, often actively and routinely, in the nineteenth-century scientific community. Here is a…
Matches: 1 hits
- … Darwin returns the manuscript of Hooker’s On the Flora of Australia , which he has proofread. …
Dramatisation script
Summary
Re: Design – Adaptation of the Correspondence of Charles Darwin, Asa Gray and others… by Craig Baxter – as performed 25 March 2007
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- … it in Plants. I have the greatest curiosity about the alpine Flora of the United States and I have …
- … and hearty admiration. [Your paper on the Statistics of the flora of the northern United States] …
- … and flatter myself I now appreciate the character of your Flora… One of your conclusions makes me …
- … I presume he has been urging you to finish your great Flora, before you do anything else. Now, I …
- … GRINDING AWAY: 1888 In which Gray grinds away at his Flora before suffering a stroke and …
- … 212 My dear Hooker…I grind away at [my] ‘Flora’ but, like the mills of the gods, I grind slowly, …
2.7 Joseph Moore, Midland Union medal
Summary
< Back to Introduction The Midland Union was an association of natural history societies and field clubs across the Midland counties, intended to facilitate – especially through its journal The Midland Naturalist – ‘the interchange of ideas’ and…
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- … and autodidact, with a special interest in mosses; his Flora of Warwickshire (1891) was based on …
Darwin in letters, 1858-1859: Origin
Summary
The years 1858 and 1859 were, without doubt, the most momentous of Darwin’s life. From a quiet rural existence filled with steady work on his ‘big book’ on species, he was jolted into action by the arrival of an unexpected letter from Alfred Russel Wallace…
Marianne North
Summary
Marianne North was born in Hastings where her father became a Liberal MP. Her family supported Marianne’s attempts at singing and painting as suitable activities for a Victorian lady. After her parents died, Marianne sold the family home and began…
Scientific Networks
Summary
Friendship|Mentors|Class|Gender In its broadest sense, a scientific network is a set of connections between people, places, and things that channel the communication of knowledge, and that substantially determine both its intellectual form and content,…
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Essay: What is Darwinism?
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—by Asa Gray WHAT IS DARWINISM? The Nation, May 28, 1874 The question which Dr. Hodge asks he promptly and decisively answers: ‘What is Darwinism? it is atheism.’ Leaving aside all subsidiary and incidental matters, let us consider–1. What the…
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- … himself a single problem–namely, How are the fauna and flora of our earth to be accounted for? . . . …
Biogeography
Summary
Sources|Discussion Questions|Experiment Observations aboard the Beagle During his five year journey around the world on HMS Beagle, Charles Darwin encountered many different landscapes and an enormous variety of flora and fauna. Some of his most…
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- … many different landscapes and an enormous variety of flora and fauna. Some of his most vivid …
ESHS 2018: 19th century scientific correspondence networks
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Sunday 16 September, 16:00-18.00, Institute of Education, Room 802 Session chair: Paul White (Darwin Correspondence Project); Discussion chair: Francis Neary (Darwin Correspondence Project) This session marks the formal launch of Ɛpsilon …
Alfred Russel Wallace
Summary
Wallace was a leading Victorian naturalist, with wide-ranging interests from biogeography and evolutionary theory to spiritualism and politics. He was born in 1823 in Usk, a small town in south-east Wales, and attended a grammar school in Hertford. At the…
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- … naturalists of his day, with unsurpassed knowledge on tropic flora, fauna, and native peoples. This …
Origin: the lost changes for the second German edition
Summary
Darwin sent a list of changes made uniquely to the second German edition of Origin to its translator, Heinrich Georg Bronn. That lost list is recreated here.
Dining at Down House
Summary
Sources|Discussion Questions|Experiment Dining, Digestion, and Darwin's Domestic Life While Darwin is best remembered for his scientific accomplishments, he greatly valued and was strongly influenced by his domestic life. Darwin's…
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- … excitement of South American cities, cultures, geography, flora and fauna) Darwin complains to his …
The Letters
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Darwin’s correspondence provides us with an invaluable source of information, not only about his own intellectual development and social network, but about Victorian science and society in general. Letters form the largest single category of Darwin’s…
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- … who provided him with observations on the fauna, flora, and peoples of the world. The correspondence …
New material added to the American edition of Origin
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A ‘revised and augmented’ American edition of Origin came on the market in July 1860, and was the only authorised edition available in the US until 1873. It incorporated many of the changes Darwin made to the second English edition, but still contained…
1.11 Laura Russell, oil
Summary
< Back to Introduction This little oil portrait of Darwin was painted by Laura Russell, daughter of Jules, vicomte de Peyronnet. She was married to Arthur Russell, MP for Tavistock; he was one of the sons of Lord William Russell, and his elder…
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- … 1869, when Laura was eight months pregnant with her daughter Flora. They visited Down House several …
Search tips
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In this section: The three basic searches Using filters to refine search Using facets to refine search results What is (and isn’t) in here? How do I… …Find all letters exchanged with a particular correspondent? …Find letters written by…
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- … care. We have manually coded some group identifiers (“flora” eg), index terms such as people, …
Before Origin: the ‘big book’
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Darwin began ‘sorting notes for Species Theory’ on 9 September 1854, the very day he concluded his eight-year study of barnacles (Darwin's Journal). He had long considered the question of species. In 1842, he outlined a theory of transmutation in a…
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- … work. When Darwin had read the introduction to Hooker’s Flora of New Zealand in October 1853, he …
Origin
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Darwin’s most famous work, Origin, had an inauspicious beginning. It grew out of his wish to establish priority for the species theory he had spent over twenty years researching. Darwin never intended to write Origin, and had resisted suggestions in 1856…
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- … to Hooker. Indeed, when Hooker was writing his essay on the flora of Australia in December 1858, he …