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From J. D. Hooker [24 July 1866]
Summary
Working on "Insular floras" lecture for BAAS Nottingham meeting [see 5135].
Puzzled at distribution of Madeiran and Canaries plants and insects.
Supports Forbes’s Atlantis hypothesis [see 956], which he has reread and to which he will allude.
Wollaston disappointing on Madeiran insects.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [24 July 1866] |
| Classmark: | DAR 205.2 (letters): 239 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5165 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … 13), Harriet Anne (12), Charles Paget (11), and Brian Harvey Hodgson (6) ( Allan 1967 ). St Albans is a market-town in Hertfordshire, England. The Hookers had friends in St Albans ( Correspondence vol. 12, letter …
- … 12). Oswald Heer advanced a further Atlantis hypothesis in which Europe, Africa, and North America were connected by a land-bridge ( Heer 1855 and 1860). See also Correspondence vol. 13, letter …
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