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To J. D. Hooker 23 November 1880
Summary
Admires Wallace’s Island life.
Criticises: 1. His view of similar plants on distant mountains – CD prefers previous low-land connections to Wallace’s summit–summit dispersal;
2. Source of warmth for ancient Arctic climate;
3. Origin of S. Australian flora.
CD’s favourite cases in Movement in plants.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 23 Nov 1880 |
| Classmark: | DAR 95: 496–9 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12841 |
To J. D. Hooker 20 December 1880
Summary
On Wallace’s pension and Frank’s F.R.S.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 20 Dec 1880 |
| Classmark: | DAR 95: 507–8 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12927 |
To J. D. Hooker 28 November [1880]
Summary
Wants to see Frank become F.R.S. before he dies.
Pities Wallace and wants a pension for him very much.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 28 Nov [1880] |
| Classmark: | DAR 95: 500–1 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12870 |
To J. D. Hooker 5 December 1880
Summary
Thanks for agreeing to propose Frank as F.R.S.
Would have enjoyed discussing Island life.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 5 Dec 1880 |
| Classmark: | DAR 95: 504–5 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12890 |
To J. D. Hooker 1 December 1880
Summary
Responds, with some embarrassment, to JDH’s caution on Frank’s F.R.S. prospects.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 1 Dec 1880 |
| Classmark: | DAR 95: 502–3 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12880 |
