Your letter has interested me extremely, and reminds me of old times.

I suppose, by your writing, you would like to hear my notions.

I cannot admit the Atlantis connecting Madeira and Canary Islands without the strongest evidence, and all on that side (365/1.

Sir J.D.Hooker lectured on "Insular Floras" at the Nottingham meeting of the British Association on August 27th, 1866.

His lecture is given in the "Gardeners' Chronicle," 1867, page 6.