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From J. D. Hooker   [24 July 1866]

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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

From Friedrich Hildebrand   24 July 1866

Summary

Assures CD of his belief in descent from his first reading of Origin.

Describes a case of dichogamy.

Author:  Friedrich Hermann Gustav (Friedrich) Hildebrand
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  24 July 1866
Classmark:  DAR 166: 204; DAR 49: 150
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-5166