From J. D. Hooker [22–30 January 1845]1
is versed enough in Nat. Hist. even for that. I send the comp. Flora of Sandwich & Society: it is very imperfect, I could not send it before, as I had some things to add to it. as it is I think it shews positively no relation between the two groups. Even the canaille are not the same in the two. I have had to drop the Pacific Flora, from want of time ⟨ ⟩
⟨ ⟩ from the context he2 cannot mean, without he compares the Mts. to the plains below: Certainly the genera remind one of Europe, especially Wicken (vetches Vicia.) &c. I can however hardly see how so very few Proteaceae as there are, can much remind him of New Holland a place I suppose he never saw & singular fruited Legum. grow all over the world & ⟨ ⟩ Holld. that I remember.. Gnapha⟨lium⟩
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Bibliography
Pöppig, Eduard Friedrich. 1835. Reise in Chile, Peru und auf dem Amazonenstrome während der Jahre 1827–1832. 2 vols. in 1. Leipzig.
Summary
Sends comparison of the floras of Society and Sandwich Islands.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-818
- From
- Joseph Dalton Hooker
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- unstated
- Source of text
- DAR 104: 247–8
- Physical description
- inc †, CD note 2pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 818,” accessed on 30 September 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-818.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 3