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A RECORD OF HIS WORK IN A SERIES OF HITHERTO
UNPUBLISHED LETTERS
EDITED BY FRANCIS DARWIN, FELLOW OF CHRIST'S
COLLEGE, AND A.C. SEWARD, FELLOW OF EMMANUEL
COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE
IN TWO VOLUMES

VOLUME II.
DEDICATED WITH AFFECTION AND RESPECT, TO
SIR JOSEPH HOOKER
IN REMEMBRANCE OF HIS LIFELONG FRIENDSHIP WITH
CHARLES DARWIN
"You will never know how much I owe to you for your constant
kindness and encouragement"
CHARLES DARWIN TO SIR JOSEPH HOOKER, SEPTEMBER 14,
1862

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VOLUME II

CHAPTER 2.
VII.--GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION.
1843-1882 (Continued) (1867-1882.)
LETTER 378. J.D. HOOKER TO CHARLES DARWIN. Kew, January
20th, 1867.
Prof. Miquel, of Utrecht, begs me to ask you for your carte, and offers
his in return. I grieve to bother you on such a subject. I am sick and

tired of this carte correspondence. I cannot conceive what Humboldt's
Pyrenean violet is: no such is mentioned in Webb, and no alpine one at
all. I am sorry I forgot to mention the stronger African affinity of the
eastern Canary Islands. Thank you for mentioning it. I cannot admit,
without further analysis, that most of the peculiar Atlantic Islands
genera were derived from Europe, and have since become extinct there.
I have rather thought that many are only altered forms of existing
European genera; but this is a very difficult point, and would require a
careful study of such genera and allies with this object in view. The
subject has often presented itself to me as a grand one for analytic
botany. No doubt its establishment would account for the community
of the peculiar genera on the several groups and islets, but whilst so
many species are common we must allow for a good deal of migration
of peculiar genera too.
By Jove! I will write out next mail to the Governor of St. Helena for
boxes of earth, and you shall have them to grow. Thanks for telling me
of having suggested to me the working out of proportions of plants with
irregular flowers in islands. I thought it was a deuced deal too good an
idea to have arisen spontaneously in my block, though I did not
recollect your having done so. No doubt your suggestion was
crystallised in some corner of my sensorium. I should like to work out
the point.
Have you Kerguelen Land amongst your volcanic islands? I have a
curious book of a sealer who was wrecked on the island, and who
mentions a volcanic mountain and hot springs at the S.W. end; it is
called the "Wreck of the Favourite." (378/1. "Narrative of the Wreck of
the 'Favourite' on the Island of Desolation; detailing the Adventures,
Sufferings and Privations of John Munn; an Historical Account of