From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Stevens Henslow
Date:
[24 Jan 1840]
Source of text:
DAR 93: A3–4
Summary:
Sends specimens from Indian Ocean atolls.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Sends specimens from Indian Ocean atolls.
Describes an orange tree with curious "horned" fruit; sends specimen. Asks if the horns represent "metamorphoses of some organ into the fruit orange".
Would like further experimentation to confirm report about germination of wheat from Egyptian tombs. Sir G. Wilkinson may have been deceived by the Arabs.
Reports on abortive anthers in flowers of thyme sent by CD.