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Darwin-Hooker Letters : Letter from J. D. Hooker to C. R. Darwin   3 July 1871

Hooker, Joseph Dalton

Darwin-Hooker Letters

<p style='text-align: justify;'>Plans to write an account of his trip to Morocco and, with John Ball, the botanical geography, for Linnean Society.</p><p style='text-align: justify;'>Results mainly negative; the Atlas exhibits "the dying out of European flora".</p><p style='text-align: justify;'>Only two or three beetles above 8000ft.</p><p style='text-align: justify;'>Disappointed that Canary Island species are absent from Atlas mountains; but an ocean current along Moroccan coast should help migration of Spanish, Portuguese, and Moroccan seeds to Canaries and Madeira.</p><p style='text-align: justify;'>Describes Lyell’s poor physical condition. Asks CD for his observations of symptoms.</p>

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