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From:
Charles Harrison Blackley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 June 1877
Source of text:
DAR 86: B12–13
Summary:

Asks if phosphoric acid could have killed Drosera he received in a matchbox.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Harrison Blackley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 Jan 1879
Source of text:
DAR 160: 194
Summary:

Relates anecdote about a provincial girl’s reaction to being told men descended from monkeys.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Harrison Blackley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 July 1873
Source of text:
DAR 160: 192
Summary:

Thanks for copy of Wyman’s book.

His own recent researches [on pollen] at high altitudes were inspired by CD’s account in Journal of researches of distances dust may travel.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Harrison Blackley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 July 1873
Source of text:
DAR 160: 193
Summary:

Thanks for suggestion to try effect of dry heat on pollen and for other new information on pollen. Will begin new experiments soon, hoping to cure hay-fever.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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