To J. D. Hooker 30 September [1857]
Summary
C. F. Ledebour [Flora rossica (1842–53)] particularly useful for variety tabulation. Results generally favourable.
Additions to Down House.
Last two chapters of MS took six months to write.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 30 Sept [1857] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 210 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2148 |
To J. D. Hooker 9 December [1857]
Summary
Survey of species with well-marked varieties: JDH’s Labiatae case a "great blow", but result is very generally consistent.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 9 Dec [1857] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 217 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2182 |
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- … Koch 1843–4 . CD was not able to incorporate data from Bentham 1858 into his table on the number of species and varieties in large and small genera (see Natural selection , pp. 149, 152). By the time Bentham 1858 was published, CD was busy writing Origin . See letter to George Bentham, 1 December [1857] , and letter from J. D. Hooker, [6 December 1857] . See letter to Ferdinand Jakob Heinrich …
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| letter | (2) |
Author
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
Addressee
| Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
Correspondent
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Hooker, J. D. |
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| 1857 | (2) |
