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Dec. 16 – 1859 Hooker in letter says many plants the commonest on W. side of Baffins Bay including species found all over Siberia N. Europe & Lapland, are not found in Greenland. Good according to passage byBehring S.– Greenland has many not found to Westward.

Mem. Masters remarks about European gradually decreasing in islands Westwards, (like gradation in Iceland) indicate gradual colonization by occasional [illeg] – Mem. Greenland must have been absolutely a desert during glacial period

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[CUL-DAR100.137-138 Correspondence: Hooker Joseph Dalton to Darwin Charles Robert [1859.12.12]]

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Hooker considers that Greenland has not [illeg] by icebergs America – but America wd be first [illeg] owing to continuous land & the run of icebergs I am almost sure is down East coast of Greenland & southwards or up west coast – There is anyhow great flow of icebergs forms America into Baffins Bay & not from Baffins Bay to Arctic America