From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alexander Stephen Wilson
Date:
4 [June] 1879
Source of text:
DAR 148: 366
Summary:
Mentions wheat varieties sent by Governor General of Turkestan.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Mentions wheat varieties sent by Governor General of Turkestan.
Sends results of the first year’s experiments with the Russian wheat varieties sent by CD [see 11483].
Discusses ASW’s discovery of error in Russian belief about wheat varieties. Suggests that he publish paper in Journal of Royal Agricultural Society. [Results actually published in Gard. Chron. n.s. 11 (1879): 622–4.]
Package of wheat varieties from Russia lost in transit.