From J. D. Hooker [23–7 May 1863]
Summary
Encloses his notions [missing] on John Scott’s offer; some points in explanation.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [23–7 May 1863] |
| Classmark: | DAR 101: 141–2 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4134 |
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- … J. D. Hooker, 23 May [1863] . The enclosure has not been found; it was sent with the letter to John Scott, 25 and 28 May [1863] . Attempts by the British to transfer Peruvian Cinchona for cultivation in India and Ceylon (Sri Lanka) began in 1860, the first plants arriving in the Nilgiri Hills in southern India in January 1861 ( Markham 1880 , pp. iii and 316). The establishment of plantations for Cinchona in Darjeeling between 1862 and 1864 …
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| letter | (1) |
Author
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
Addressee
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
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| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
