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From J. D. Hooker   [before 17 March 1855]

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JDH criticises C. J. F. Bunbury’s paper on Madeira [J. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Bot.) 1 (1857): 1–35].

Absence of Ophrys on Madeira suggests to JDH a sequence in creation of groups.

Why are flightless insects common in desert?

Australian endemism.

Author:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [before 17 Mar 1855]
Classmark:  DAR 104: 210–13
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-1644

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  • … April 1855 (C.  J. F. Bunbury 1857). See letter to J.  D. Hooker, 7 March [1855] . CD made …

To Charles James Fox Bunbury   [20 March 1855]

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CD hopes to have an hour’s talk with CJFB before CD leaves London.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Charles James Fox Bunbury, 8th baronet
Date:  [20 Mar 1855]
Classmark:  John Hay Library, Brown University
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-13784

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  • 1857). The paper had, however, been summarised in Gardeners’ Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette , no. 11, 17 March 1855, p.  175. See also letter from J.  D. Hooker, [ …