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Darwin-Hooker Letters : Letter from J. D. Hooker to C. R. Darwin   14 December 1866

Hooker, Joseph Dalton

Darwin-Hooker Letters

<p style='text-align: justify;'>Scarlet seed is <i>Adenanthera pavonina</i>. JDH’s suggestion on how disseminated.</p><p style='text-align: justify;'>On Herbert Spencer, "all oil no bone – a thinking pump", but his paper on sap and wood [<i>Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond.</i> 25 (1866): 405–30] is good science. His refusal to bring a specimen for analysis when confronted by JDH.</p><p style='text-align: justify;'>Bentham and Martin disagreement.</p><p style='text-align: justify;'>Speculations on New Zealand flora.</p><p style='text-align: justify;'>Albert Günther’s paper on fishes on each side of Isthmus of Panama [<i>Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond.</i> (1866): 600–4].</p><p style='text-align: justify;'>On the quantity (bulk and weight) of organic life [matter].</p>

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