The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online

RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. Hooker says Galapagos plants, though not peculiar are mostly W. Indian. CUL-DAR205.4.92. 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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Hooker says Galapagos plants, though not peculiar are mostly W. Indian. W. India plants, common to two coasts of Isthmus – was then was open sea across the isthmus; were plants transported across by band of gulf-stream – had Chilian & Peruvian form before been introduced & modified – Mem one shell (Purpura) common to two coasts - & to Galapagos – The isthmus must have been open, before existence of present mollusca!!

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says no land-beds on Kerguelen Land, yet Acenæ has perfectly hooked seeds.

Citation: John van Wyhe, ed. 2002-. The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online. (http://darwin-online.org.uk/)