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Darwin-Hooker Letters : Letter from C. R. Darwin to J. D. Hooker   6 August 1881

Darwin, Charles Robert

Darwin-Hooker Letters

<p style='text-align: justify;'>Responds to JDH’s outline history of plant geography.</p><p style='text-align: justify;'>Considers Humboldt the "greatest scientific traveller who ever lived".</p><p style='text-align: justify;'>Discusses the origin and rapid radiation of angiosperms in Cretaceous period.</p><p style='text-align: justify;'>Comments on importance of work of Alphonse de Candolle, Saporta, Axel Blytt.</p>

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