Darwin-Hooker Letters : Letter from C. R. Darwin to J. D. Hooker 6 August 1881
Darwin, Charles Robert
Darwin-Hooker Letters
<p style='text-align: justify;'>Responds to JDH’s outline history of plant geography.</p><p style='text-align: justify;'>Considers Humboldt the "greatest scientific traveller who ever lived".</p><p style='text-align: justify;'>Discusses the origin and rapid radiation of angiosperms in Cretaceous period.</p><p style='text-align: justify;'>Comments on importance of work of Alphonse de Candolle, Saporta, Axel Blytt.</p>