From:
Thomas Rivers
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 May 1866
Source of text:
DAR 176: 165
Summary:
Will be sure to send the Cytisus and Laburnum blooms when they flower.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Will be sure to send the Cytisus and Laburnum blooms when they flower.
Sends a sketch of the haricot climbing the shoot of the plum-tree [see 4866].
Hopes to see CD at the [Horticultural] Congress on Wednesday [30 May].
Sends data on movement direction of Wisteria shoots.
Sends blooms of Cytisus purpureus-elongatus.
Has searched scores of purple-fruited nut-trees, but not a nut is to be found. Has heard there are some nearby and will send them as soon as he receives them.
Sends CD a letter from Mr Claydon responding to TR’s doubts and confirming the truth of a report that a farmer had "transmuted" oats into barley.