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From:
Darwin, H. E.
To:
Darwin, Emma
Date:
[28 April 1866]
Source of text:
DAR 219.10: 9
Summary:
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Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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Observations on a bird that used a stone to break open a snail.
Needs Annales de la Société d’horticulture de Paris 7 (1830).
Asks that Oliver provide a reference for microscopical appearance and structure of a bud.
Was very well on first part of London visit.
Orchids.
Lyell has written to JDH about coal-plants of Melville Island.
Has glanced at first edition of Principles and has no doubt that Lyell meant the whole globe was cooler when land was massed at poles. JDH doubts this.