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DCP-LETT-2906

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alexander Goodman More
Date:
5 Sept [1860]
Source of text:
Royal Irish Academy (A. G. More papers RIA MS 4 B 46)
Summary:

Discusses Spiranthes. Did AGM see dipterous insects insert proboscis?

Asks for information about Epipactis.

Describes fertilisation of Orchis pyramidalis.

Has received moth with pollen from O. pyramidalis.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Faraday3842

From:
James Timmins Chance
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
5 September 1860
Source of text:
GL MS 30108/5, f.58-9
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

Herschel7124

From:
Augustus De Morgan
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[5 September 1860]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.338
Summary:

Knew he would get a speedy answer. Quick, the Bristol bookseller, has sent him an edition of Francis Walkingame's Arithmetic. Thinks JH is right to sell Francis Baily's house. G. B. Libri may wish to buy. His puns are unavoidable. Hopes JH will have his house valued.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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