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Darwin-Hooker Letters : Letter from C. R. Darwin to J. D. Hooker   18 [July 1855]

Darwin, Charles Robert

Darwin-Hooker Letters

<p style='text-align: justify;'>Has read a paper, presumably by JDH, using the Madeiran flora to argue against Forbes’s doctrine.</p><p style='text-align: justify;'>JDH asked how far CD will go in attributing common descent; he intends to show "the facts & arguments for & against the common descent of species of same genus; & then show how far the same arguments tell for or against forms, more & more widely different".</p>

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