RECORD: Darwin, C. R. 1842.04. [Note on Lapland forms]. CUL-DAR205.4.22. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 10.2021. RN1
NOTE: See record in the Darwin Online manuscript catalogue, enter its Identifier here. Reproduced with permission of the Syndics of Cambridge University Library and William Huxley Darwin. The volume CUL-DAR205.4 contains notes on geographical distribution and species.
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April 1842.
Dr Boot says on the summit of the White Mountains there are Lapland forms of plants, & one which he believes is found no where else except there, & on this one mountain. He seemed to admit my explanation of the low-land plants of such latitudes having in the old ice period bear all arctic forms, & as the snow gradually disappeared from mountains the arctic forms were driven up there & further towards the poles.
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