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Darwin-Hooker Letters : Letter from J. D. Hooker to C. R. Darwin   19 November 1867

Hooker, Joseph Dalton

Darwin-Hooker Letters

<p style='text-align: justify;'>Will not be inclined to challenge Pangenesis.</p><p style='text-align: justify;'>Admits CD’s victory over JDH’s continental hypothesis (but will not give up Greenland).</p><p style='text-align: justify;'>Relation of variation to circumstances is shown by discovery of endemic St Helena umbellifer having same palm-like habit as an endemic Madeiran species.</p><p style='text-align: justify;'>Has completed Boott’s <i>Carices</i> [<i>Illustrations of the genus Carex</i>, pt 4 (1867)],</p><p style='text-align: justify;'>is printing W. H. Harvey’s work [<i>Genera of South African plants</i>, 2d ed. (1868)],</p><p style='text-align: justify;'>and is revising English edition of Alphonse de Candolle’s <i>Laws of botanical nomenclature</i> [trans. H. A. Weddell (1868)].</p><p style='text-align: justify;'>Arrangements at Kew. Gardener [John Smith] is very ill; Oliver reigns supreme in the Herbarium.</p>

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