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Darwin-Hooker Letters : Letter from J. D. Hooker to C. R. Darwin   [12 December 1843 – 11 January 1844]

Hooker, Joseph Dalton

Darwin-Hooker Letters

<p style='text-align: justify;'>Henslow has sent him CD’s Galapagos plants along with Macrae’s. JDH impressed by the island endemism, which "overturns all our preconceived notions" on centres of radiation. Describes the extent, and the sharp demarcation at longitude 60° W, of the American and European Northern Hemisphere floras. CD’s plants among those he is using to do Antarctic flora. <i>Drimys winteri</i> shows a graded series of states down the length of the South American continent.</p>


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