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From J. D. Hooker   [before 3 September 1846]

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Has done Edmondston’s Galapagos plants.

Dispute between Edward Forbes and H. C. Watson.

Author:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [before 3 Sept 1846]
Classmark:  DAR 100: 79
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-994

To J. D. Hooker   [3 September 1846]

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Has nearly finished South America.

Pleased to hear JDH has worked out identical and representative species of N. Temperate and Antarctic regions.

Geoffroy Saint Hilaire’s "loi du balancement" as applied to plants.

CD jaded by, but has nearly completed, South America.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:  [3 Sept 1846]
Classmark:  DAR 114: 64
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-996

From J. D. Hooker   28 September 1846

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Cannot come to Down to meet B. J. Sulivan as W. H. Harvey is calling.

Plant distribution and soil nature.

Forbes’s modification of Watson’s types of vegetation.

JDH will write comparison of representative plant species of the N. and S. Hemispheres.

Author:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  28 Sept 1846
Classmark:  DAR 100: 69–72
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-998