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From J. D. Hooker 15 September 1863
Summary
Pleased CD accepts continental extension for New Zealand, whose flora has many genera like Rubus with great diversity and connecting intermediates. Suggests geological uplifting creates more space, hence opportunities for preservation of intermediates. Sees clash with CD on causes of extreme diversity of form in a group.
JDH’s attitude toward democratisation of science.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 15 Sept 1863 |
| Classmark: | DAR 101: 163–6 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4306 |
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- … Wedgwood works were at Etruria, near Hanley, one of the principal towns of the Potteries; Biddulph Grange is approximately seven miles north of Hanley. Henrietta Emma Darwin . The Darwin family were staying in Malvern Wells, Worcestershire, where CD was undergoing treatment at James Smith Ayerst’s hydropathic establishment (see letter to W. D. Fox, 4 [September 1863] ). …
