I have allowed a very long <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />time to pass since the receipt <supplied xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" cert="high">of</supplied> <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />the long & kind letter, with <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />which you honored me by <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" /><ref xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" xml:id="d5b49af0-d270-41e3-b49a-f0d27081e301" corresp="#c5de245a-9aa2-49e2-9e24-5a9aa209e202" type="editorialNote">Herr <persName ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0015656 http://d-nb.info/gnd/117645281">Schönbein</persName></ref><note xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" xml:id="c5de245a-9aa2-49e2-9e24-5a9aa209e202" corresp="#d5b49af0-d270-41e3-b49a-f0d27081e301" type="editorial"><persName ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0011992 http://d-nb.info/gnd/118774891">J.D. Hooker</persName> meint <persName ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0015656 http://d-nb.info/gnd/117645281">Philipp Schönlein</persName>.</note>, but I have <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />been anxious to procure for you <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />as definite information as I <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />can about the <name xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" type="plant" key="Sargassum">Gulf-weed</name>. 1) An <name xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" type="plant">algae</name> in a decidedly <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />abnormal state. 2) That it <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />had certainly been originally <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />transported <add xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" place="superlinear">by currents</add> to that meridian. 3) That the individual specimens <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />were growing with great <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />rapidity. 4) That they were <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />constantly being multiplied by<pb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" n="1v" /><choice xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"> <orig>by </orig> <reg /> </choice>the multitudes of <name xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" type="animal" key="Fisch">Fish</name> <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />& <name xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" type="animal" key="Crustacea">Crustaceae</name> that swarmed <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />amongst them. 5<choice xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"> <orig><hi rendition="#sup">th</hi></orig> <reg>)</reg> </choice> That <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />each piece thus severed <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />maintained an independent <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />Existence & increased greatly. 6) From a study of the subject <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />with <persName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0790354">D<hi rendition="#sup">r</hi>. Harvey</persName>, after my <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />return from the <placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0002469 https://www.geonames.org/6255152">Antarctic</placeName> <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />voyage, I concluded that it <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />was specifically the same (but <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" /><subst xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"> <del rendition="#s"><gap reason="illegible" unit="words" quantity="1" /></del> <add place="superlinear">an altered form of)</add> </subst> a <placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0010380 https://www.geonames.org/6255150">South America</placeName>n species. I may further remark <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />that the <hi xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" rendition="#u">Macrocystis</hi> floats <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />over the <placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0020731 https://www.geonames.org/4036776">Antarctic Ocean</placeName> in <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" /><add xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" place="superlinear">detached</add> masses far larger than those <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />of the <hi xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" rendition="#u"><name type="plant">Sargassum</name></hi>, maintaining <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />equally an independent <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />life & growing; but always<pb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" n="2r" />presenting a different form <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />from the <hi xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" rendition="#u">attached</hi> specimens <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />of the same <name xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" type="plant" key="algae">Algae</name>. – So also <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />in my voyage from the <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" /><placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0016294 https://www.geonames.org/3373404">Sargasso sea</placeName> northwards to <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />the Channels, I encountered <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" /><hi xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" rendition="#u"><name type="plant">Fucus serratus</name></hi> & <hi xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" rendition="#u"><name type="plant" key="Fucus nodosus">nodosus</name></hi>, <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />living in mid-ocean & <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />maintaining an independent <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />Existence, just as the <hi xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" rendition="#u"><name type="plant">Sargassum</name></hi> <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />did – they had <subst xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"> <del rendition="#s">no doubt</del> <add place="superlinear">probably</add> </subst> <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />been drifted to that meridian <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />from the <placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0001698 https://www.geonames.org/7729890"><choice> <abbr>N.</abbr> <expan>North</expan> </choice> America</placeName>n coast <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />& <subst xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"> <del rendition="#s">was</del> <add place="superlinear">were</add> </subst> not uncommon. I have begun to compile <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />a <ref xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" xml:id="e8924743-c92e-4edb-9247-43c92ecedb60" corresp="#cfe1ceea-98dd-441f-a1ce-ea98dd441fe3" type="editorialNote">Flora Arctica</ref><note xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" xml:id="cfe1ceea-98dd-441f-a1ce-ea98dd441fe3" corresp="#e8924743-c92e-4edb-9247-43c92ecedb60" type="editorial">Vgl. <bibl corresp="https://edition-humboldt.de/3QT6778E">Hooker, J.D. 1862</bibl>.</note>, from the <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />combined materials of all <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />the Arctic voyages; it will <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />I hope form an interesting <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />subject, & will be chiefly<pb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" n="2v" />remarkable for the small <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />number of Endemic species. <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />I am also engaged upon the <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" /><ref xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" xml:id="ad98719e-d2df-4d22-9871-9ed2df9d221f" corresp="#eac66354-0dd2-4369-8663-540dd263695c" type="editorialNote">Flora of Tasmania</ref><note xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" xml:id="eac66354-0dd2-4369-8663-540dd263695c" corresp="#ad98719e-d2df-4d22-9871-9ed2df9d221f" type="editorial"><bibl corresp="https://edition-humboldt.de/T5SDE24E">Hooker, J. D. 1844–1860</bibl>, III.</note>, which will <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />be accompanied with a sketch <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />of the vegetation of <placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0002625 https://www.geonames.org/2077456">Australia</placeName><choice xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"> <orig>,</orig> <reg>.</reg> </choice> <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" /><persName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0003944 http://d-nb.info/gnd/117351946">D<hi rendition="#sup">r</hi>. Thomson</persName> & I have finished <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />the first part of our <ref xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" xml:id="f0b0f46e-4de8-4ad6-b0f4-6e4de87ad61b" corresp="#e1f8cc94-6f6a-4e63-b8cc-946f6a8e63e8" type="editorialNote">Flora <lb />Indica</ref><note xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" xml:id="e1f8cc94-6f6a-4e63-b8cc-946f6a8e63e8" corresp="#f0b0f46e-4de8-4ad6-b0f4-6e4de87ad61b" type="editorial"><bibl corresp="https://edition-humboldt.de/VNWTINB4">Hooker, J. D./Thomson 1855</bibl>, I.</note>, which contains a <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />long introductory Essay on <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />the Physical Geography, <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />Botany & Meteorology of all <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />the Provinces of <placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0006686 https://www.geonames.org/1269750">India</placeName>, from <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" /><placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0002330 https://www.geonames.org/1149361">Affghanistan</placeName> to <placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0007396 https://www.geonames.org/1814991">China</placeName>, & <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />from <placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0009370 https://www.geonames.org/1279685">Tibet</placeName> to <placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0007287 https://www.geonames.org/1227603">Ceylon</placeName> & <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" /><placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0008607">Malacca</placeName>. I hope to have <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />the honor of transmitting to <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />you a copy of this work <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />before many days. Mr <persName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0012148 http://d-nb.info/gnd/118523813">Darwin</persName> is now in very<pb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" n="3r" />fair health, though often <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />ill for several days at a time. <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />He is performing a set of most <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />interesting experiments on the <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />vitality of seeds after immersion <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />in Salt-water which will <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />be of the highest importance, <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />these observations, & his <ref xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" xml:id="a15fd290-592e-47b1-9fd2-90592e77b178" corresp="#a5fe0fff-2b10-49b2-be0f-ff2b1049b280" type="editorialNote">great <lb />work on <hi rendition="#uu">Species</hi></ref><note xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" xml:id="a5fe0fff-2b10-49b2-be0f-ff2b1049b280" corresp="#a15fd290-592e-47b1-9fd2-90592e77b178" type="editorial"><bibl corresp="https://edition-humboldt.de/63WU32SC">Darwin 1859</bibl>.</note>, now occupy <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />his attention almost exclusively. <persName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0003944 http://d-nb.info/gnd/117351946">D<hi rendition="#sup">r</hi>. Thomson</persName> sailed for <placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0016218 https://www.geonames.org/1275004">Calcutta</placeName> <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" /><date xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" when="1855-03" cert="high">a month ago</date>, to relieve <persName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0020756 http://d-nb.info/gnd/117498246">D<hi rendition="#sup">r</hi> <lb />Falconer</persName> at the <orgName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0020399 https://d-nb.info/gnd/2020025-0">Botanic <lb />Gardens</orgName> of <placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0016218 https://www.geonames.org/1275004">Calcutta</placeName>. My <persName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="H0011993">Father</persName> is perfectly well <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />& desires his affectionate <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />regards, he has hopes of a <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" /><subst xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"> <del rendition="#s">f<gap reason="covered" unit="chars" quantity="3" /></del> <add place="superlinear">large</add> </subst> new Museum being <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />built at <placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0000407 https://www.geonames.org/2645740">Kew</placeName> for the <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />illustration of Economic Botany. <persName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H9236694 https://viaf.org/viaf/198146998388318941056">Mrs Hooker</persName> begs me to present<pb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" n="3v" />her most sincere regards <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />& respects to you, & to assure <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />you how deeply she feels <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />the kind & flattering mention <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />you make of her. She is <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />to me an invaluable wife, <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />& worthy of the kind mention <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />you always make of her <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />industry & love of knowledge. <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />Without her I should never <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />have been able to get through <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />the calculations for my <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />Indian observations, the <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />means of which she computed <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />for me, besides preparing <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />the <choice xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"> <abbr>Mss</abbr> <expan>Manuscripts</expan> </choice> of the whole work <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />for the press, copying it out, <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />& correcting all the proof<lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" break="no" />-sheets three times. I have now two little children<supplied xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" cert="high">,</supplied><pb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" n="4r" />a <persName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H6906554">boy</persName> & a <persName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H9813752">girl</persName>, the former of <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />whom develops the first <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />instinct of man, by digging <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />in the garden, before he can <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />talk. Thus you see my dear friend <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />I take you at your word, & <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />tell you all about those of <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />whom you so kindly ask. I have seen much of <ref xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" xml:id="e5d95b2d-a529-4e74-995b-2da5292e748a" corresp="#a0a6720c-2a07-4368-a672-0c2a07536883" type="editorialNote">Herr <lb /><persName ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0015656 http://d-nb.info/gnd/117645281">Schoenbein</persName></ref><note xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" xml:id="a0a6720c-2a07-4368-a672-0c2a07536883" corresp="#e5d95b2d-a529-4e74-995b-2da5292e748a" type="editorial"><persName ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0011992 http://d-nb.info/gnd/118774891">J.D. Hooker</persName> meint <persName ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0015656 http://d-nb.info/gnd/117645281">Philipp Schönlein</persName>.</note> & I introduced him <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />to those who I hope will be <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />of service to him here & in <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" /><placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0006686 https://www.geonames.org/1269750">India</placeName>. This will be delivered to <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />you by Mr <persName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0016990 http://d-nb.info/gnd/124064272">Bunbury</persName> who <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />you <choice xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"> <sic>doubless</sic> <corr>doubtless</corr> </choice> know as the <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />brother in law of Herr <persName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0001895 http://d-nb.info/gnd/118592858">Pertz</persName>, <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />& a distinguished Botanist, <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />Palaeontologist & traveller. <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />He will tell you of poor<pb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" n="4v" /><persName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0012188 http://d-nb.info/gnd/116099305">Sir Henry De la Beche</persName>s death <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />& of his being succeeded by <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" /><persName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0014452 http://d-nb.info/gnd/119297345">Sir Roderick Murchison</persName>. Mr <persName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0003693 http://d-nb.info/gnd/118674455">Brown</persName> is <add xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" place="superlinear">in</add> very indifferent <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />health at present, troubled <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />with cough, sleeplessness & <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />debility<subst xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"> <del rendition="#ow">.</del> <add place="across">,</add> </subst> a change of weather <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />will I do not doubt renovate <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />his health. 