From:
Frederick Smith
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 Mar 1878
Source of text:
DAR 177: 198
Summary:
Thanks CD for specimens of, and curious facts on, the "harvesting ant".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Thanks CD for specimens of, and curious facts on, the "harvesting ant".
On germination of wheat.
Can supply Drosera if CD wants some.
Talk of a subscription to help JT’s experiments. Progress of experiment; loss of fungus-resistance in varieties as they age.
CD gives his opinion on how the physiological laboratory at Kew should be equipped. It would be a pity if the laboratory were not supplied with as many good instruments as their funds could provide.