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To J. D. Hooker [5 April 1866]
Summary
Queries for John Smith [Kew curator] on crossing a cucumber variety.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | [5 Apr 1866] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 286 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5054 |
To J. D. Hooker 3 and 4 August [1866]
Summary
Answers JDH’s questions on connection of SE. England and continent,
on the effect of breaking the Isthmus of Panama,
and on Madeira flora as remnant of Tertiary flora.
Cautionary remarks for JDH on his "Insular floras" speech, designed to strengthen case of "occasional migration" theory.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 3 and 4 Aug 1866 |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 295, 295b |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5174 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … J. D. Hooker, 31 July 1866 and n. 19. CD’s enquiry about sea currents to the Atlantic islands, and the response, have not been found. The only ship wrecked in the Canary Islands between 1836 and 1866 was the British steamship Niger . The Niger was wrecked at Santa Cruz, Tenerife, on 12 June 1857, …
To J. D. Hooker [28 February 1866]
Summary
Refers to part of JDH letter on glacial period sent on to Lyell. CD will not yield. Cannot think how JDH attaches so much attention to physicists. Has "come not to care at all for general beliefs without the special facts".
His health is improved but not so good as JDH supposes.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | [28 Feb 1866] |
| Classmark: | DAR 94: 31–2 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5020 |
