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“I am above the forest region, amongst grand rocks & such a torrent as you see in Salvator Rosa's paintings vegetation all a scrub of rhodods. with Pines below me as thick & bad to get through as our Fuegian Fagi on the hill tops, & except the towering peaks of P. S. that, here shoot up on all hands there is little difference in the mt sceneryhere however the blaze of Rhod. flowers and various colored jungle proclaims a differently constituted region in a naturalists eye & twenty species here, to one there, always are asking me the vexed question, where do we come from?”

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Joseph Dalton Hooker

Joseph Dalton Hooker was a British botanist born on June 30, 1817, and died on December 10, 1911. He is renowned for his contributions to plant taxonomy and plant geography, serving as the director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, and participating in several scientific expeditions. more

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