Darwin-Hooker Letters : Letter from J. D. Hooker to C. R. Darwin [26 November – 4 December 1860]
Hooker, Joseph Dalton
Darwin-Hooker Letters
<p style='text-align: justify;'>Encourages CD’s work in vegetable physiology.</p><p style='text-align: justify;'>Ascending the Lebanon JDH noted limits of plant distribution as CD requested: lower limits of a genus sharper than upper. Sharpness of boundaries related to a plant’s moisture requirement.</p><p style='text-align: justify;'>Impressed by "sporadic" distribution at the Jardin des Plantes in Paris.</p>