From:
Isaac Anderson; Isaac Anderson Henry
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Apr 1867
Source of text:
DAR 159: 67
Summary:
Will find out identity of Robert Trail.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Will find out identity of Robert Trail.
Offers to send Benoît de Maillet’s Telliamed [1750].
Encloses a letter [16 May 1867] from John Anderson, a nurseryman, giving information on budding of blotched ash at the nursery.
Has crossed pods of Arabis blepharophylla larger than normal ones.
Sends Telliamed as gift.
Details of Arabis crosses. Seed-pods of A. blepharophylla and A. soyeri crosses are longer and wider than those of either species.
Will send proto-Lamarckian pamphlet [1799] by Charles White, if CD wishes. It has a graduated scale of types from snipe to man.