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From J. D. Hooker [c. April 1851]
Summary
Wants catalogue of small islands that contain peculiar plants. Thinks complete floras of islands in various stages of depression [subsidence] would provide good data.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [c. Apr 1851] |
Classmark: | DAR 100: 164 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1382 |
From J. D. Hooker [late August – early September 1851]
Summary
James Wilson reports case of salmon hybrids.
Herrings inhabit freshwater lake in Scotland during winter.
JDH will edit juror reports for the Great Exhibition.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [late Aug – early Sept 1851] |
Classmark: | DAR 205.10: 98 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1440 |
From J. D. Hooker [November 1851]
Summary
Flora of New Zealand.
Reconsidering variability of insular species.
Becoming convinced of the probability that the southern flora is a fragmentary one – all that remains of a great southern continent.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [Nov 1851] |
Classmark: | DAR 100: 82–5 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1460 |