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Darwin-Hooker Letters : Letter from C. R. Darwin to J. D. Hooker   30 October [1873]

Darwin, Charles Robert

Darwin-Hooker Letters

<p style='text-align: justify;'>Thanks for leaves. His notes on them will be of greatest service.</p><p style='text-align: justify;'>He cannot distinguish some <i>Eucalypti</i> from <i>Acacia</i>. Sends specimens, with numbers, for JDH to name.</p><p style='text-align: justify;'><i>Acacia farnesiana</i> branches arrived withered, but saw enough to make him wish to examine the plant.</p><p style='text-align: justify;'>Has thought of some troublesome experiments for <i>Drosophyllum</i>.</p><p style='text-align: justify;'>Encloses remarks [missing] by Searles Wood, with which CD disagrees, about a new and strongly marked variety transmitting its characters.</p><p style='text-align: justify;'>The competition of better adapted forms seems to CD a sufficient explanation [for extinction].</p>


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