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Darwin-Hooker Letters : Letter from C. R. Darwin to J. D. Hooker   [7 January 1845]

Darwin, Charles Robert

Darwin-Hooker Letters

<p style='text-align: justify;'>Sends specimens of a Tertiary sandstone from Tierra del Fuego in which there are leaves; CD thought they were beech. What is JDH’s opinion?</p><p style='text-align: justify;'>Asks whether JDH can make sense of a note on silicified wood.</p><p style='text-align: justify;'>Has read <i>Vestiges</i> [<i>of creation</i> (1844)]; "his geology strikes me as bad, & his zoology far worse".</p><p style='text-align: justify;'>Would like to see lists [of plants] from Society and Sandwich Islands.</p><p style='text-align: justify;'>Doubts JDH’s information regarding imagination of mother affecting offspring.</p>

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