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From J. D. Hooker 7 October 1878
Summary
Botanical evidence is against F. B. White’s origin of St Helena fauna. JDH holds flora is S. African. Since plants must arrive before insects, if fauna is Palearctic then flora survived glacial period. Flora not Miocene since old and relic orders are absent. Suggests S. African west coastal mountains as insects’ origin.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 7 Oct 1878 |
| Classmark: | DAR 104: 118–20 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11718 |
To R. D. Fitzgerald 7 October 1878
Summary
Thanks for pt 4 of Australian orchids [1874–].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Robert David Fitzgerald |
| Date: | 7 Oct 1878 |
| Classmark: | Mitchell Library, Sydney (A 2546) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11719 |
To Joseph Lister 7 October 1878
Summary
Suggests that benzoic acid would be a deadly poison to bacteria and their allies.
Is puzzled about the use of borax as a disinfectant because in his experiments Drosera were not in the least injured by boracic acid.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Lister |
| Date: | 7 Oct 1878 |
| Classmark: | Godlee 1917, p. 387 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11719A |
Document type
| letter | (3) |
Author
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
Addressee
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Fitzgerald, R. D. | (1) |
| Lister, Joseph | (1) |
Correspondent
| Darwin, C. R. | |
| Fitzgerald, R. D. | (1) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
| Lister, Joseph | (1) |
