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To J. D. Hooker   15 November [1854]

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Calculating small number of species in aberrant genera of insects and plants.

Joachim Barrande’s "Colonies", Élie de Beaumont’s "lines of Elevation", Forbes’s "Polarity" make CD despair, as these theories lead to conclusions opposite to CD’s from the same classes of facts.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:  15 Nov [1854]
Classmark:  DAR 114: 156
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-1601

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  • 1849 . See letter from G.  R. Waterhouse, 11 November 1854 , n.  1. Waterhouse 1845 , p.  19 n. There is an annotated copy in the Darwin Library–CUL. See Correspondence vol.  3, letter to J.  D. Hooker, …
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