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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Lucy Caroline Wedgwood; Lucy Caroline Harrison
Date:
18 Oct [1881]
Source of text:
Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University, Philadelphia
Summary:

Can think of no suggestion to send to Mrs Forsyth. "The best plan is to read, think and speculate and then some suggestion or doubt will occur which can be determined or verified out of observation."

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Lucy Caroline Wedgwood; Lucy Caroline Harrison
Date:
[before 25 Sept 1866]
Source of text:
CUL (Add 4251: 336)
Summary:

Asks her to see whether the flowers or leaves of Erica massoni are noted as glutinous in the Botanical Magazine.

Inquires about the pods of peony: are they brilliantly coloured and do birds eat them?

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Lucy Caroline Wedgwood; Lucy Caroline Harrison
Date:
8 June [1867-72]
Source of text:
CUL (Add 4251: 334)
Summary:

Asks her to observe whether her dog exposes his teeth when barking and to think of any facts about expression in her birds.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Lucy Caroline Wedgwood; Lucy Caroline Harrison
Date:
5 Jan [1872]
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library (Add 4251: 331)
Summary:

Asks her to probe worm-holes on grassy slopes with a knitting needle to ascertain whether they come out at right angles to the slope or to the horizon.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Lucy Caroline Wedgwood; Lucy Caroline Harrison
Date:
21 Jan [1872]
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library (Add 4251: 332)
Summary:

Thanks for observations on angles of worm-holes on slopes. William Darwin is observing at Stonehenge. She is worth her weight in gold.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Katherine Elizabeth Sophy (Sophy) Wedgwood; Margaret Susan Wedgwood; Margaret Susan Vaughan Williams; Lucy Caroline Wedgwood; Lucy Caroline Harrison
Date:
4 [Aug 1862]
Source of text:
DAR 185: 127
Summary:

Their enumeration [of forms of Lythrum?] is invaluable. He will write later to explain what he is trying to prove about Lythrum through laborious crosses.

Asks for flowers of both forms of Hottonia to measure pollen and compare stigmas.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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