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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Stevens Henslow
Date:
[after 6 Dec 1856]
Source of text:
DAR 93: A115
Summary:

He is steadily and very hard at work on "Variation" [Natural selection] and finds the whole subject "deeply interesting but horribly perplexed".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Gardeners’ Chronicle
Date:
[before 6 Dec 1856]
Source of text:
Gardeners’ Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette , 6 December 1856, p. 806
Summary:

CD is collecting all the evidence he can on natural crossing of varieties of plants. Asks readers of Gardeners’ Chronicle to give evidence "showing either that Leguminous crops, when grown close together do sometimes cross or on the other hand that they may invariably be grown close together without any chance of deterioration".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Francis Charles Knowles
Date:
[6 December 1856]
Source of text:
RS:HS 11.67 & 23.184
Summary:

Would be inclined to try a combination of cryolite and silex to obtain a glass. Comments on his process for decomposing alumina by cyanide of sodium. Sorry to see that FK uses the current forms of chemical notation.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Samuel Haughton
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
6 December 1856
Source of text:
MS JT/1/TYP/2/483, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project