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Darwin-Hooker Letters : Letter from J. D. Hooker to C. R. Darwin   2 November 1862

Hooker, Joseph Dalton

Darwin-Hooker Letters

<p style='text-align: justify;'>Stupefied by CD’s five forms of <i>Lythrum</i>.</p><p style='text-align: justify;'>Asa Gray busy with <i>Cypripedium</i>. JDH offers some to CD if he wants to challenge Gray.</p><p style='text-align: justify;'>J. W. Dawson’s review of JDH’s paper on Arctic plants.</p><p style='text-align: justify;'>Louis Lucien Bonaparte’s views on Basque and Finnish language [<i>Langue basque et langues finnoises</i> (1862)] suggest to JDH that Basques are Finns left behind after the glacial period, like the Arctic plants!</p>


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