To B. D. Walsh 23 March [1867]
Summary
Thanks for Agassiz’s Lectures. Lyell does not believe a word about glacial action of any kind in lowlands of Brazil. Agassiz’s view of glacial movement has been given up by physicists.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Benjamin Dann Walsh |
Date: | 23 Mar [1867] |
Classmark: | Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago (Walsh 9) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5455 |
From J. D. Hooker 23 March 1867
Summary
More on Naudin’s hybrid; the wonder lessened slightly.
JDH’s view that insular plants [distantly] related to those of continents are common came to him only after the lecture was in print; has not yet thought it out fully.
Moroccan flora may throw some light on Madeira flora.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 23 Mar 1867 |
Classmark: | DAR 102: 151–3; Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Directors’ Correspondence 143: 643) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5456 |
From Hermann Müller 23 March 1867
Summary
The Origin converted him from a Linnean interpretation of flowers and mosses.
Glad that CD appreciates his continuing work on mosses, in support of natural selection.
Plans to repeat CD’s orchid experiments.
Sends interpretation of the floral anatomy of Lopezia miniata.
Author: | Heinrich Ludwig Hermann (Hermann) Müller |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 23 Mar 1867 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 290, 290/1 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5457 |
Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
Müller, Hermann | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
Walsh, B. D. | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
Müller, Hermann | (1) |
Walsh, B. D. | (1) |