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Darwin-Hooker Letters : Letter from J. D. Hooker to C. R. Darwin   [2 April 1864]

Hooker, Joseph Dalton

Darwin-Hooker Letters

<p style='text-align: justify;'>JDH explains why he cannot take Scott on at Kew.</p><p style='text-align: justify;'>John Tyndall cannot answer CD’s questions on glaciers. Edward Frankland’s ignorance. In JDH’s opinion, heaviness of winter snowfall is the greatest element in size of glaciers and this is a function of low mean temperature. Discusses descent of glaciers.</p>

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