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To J. D. Hooker   [11 January 1844]

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Queries on ratios of species to genera on southern islands. CD’s observations on distribution of Galapagos organisms, and on S. American fossils, and facts he has gathered since, lead him to conclusion that species are not immutable; "it is like confessing a murder".

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:  [11 Jan 1844]
Classmark:  DAR 114: 3
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-729

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  • … Correspondence vol.  1, letter to J.  S. Henslow, [ c . 26 October –] 24 November [1832]. …

From J. D. Hooker   29 January 1844

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Remarks on geographical divisions of the flora of the Southern Hemisphere.

JDH beginning Galapagos plants. Value of studying insular floras with respect to inquiries about adaptation of species.

Author:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  29 Jan 1844
Classmark:  DAR 100: 5–7
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-734

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  • Henslow , who had originally received CD’s Beagle plant collections. The plants were subsequently passed to Hooker in the autumn of 1843 (see Correspondence vol.  2, letter from J.   …
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