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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, H. E.
Date:
[2 August 1862]
Source of text:
DAR 219.9: 1
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
No summary available.
Sends specimens of the three forms of Lythrum. Remarks on the numerical proportions of different forms.
Discusses Lythrum, "a really wonderful case"; asks WED to make observations and collect specimens; sends a diagram which shows what crosses he believes are fertile.
Would like George to watch bees visiting the flowers; wants some pods from different forms to compare shapes and count seeds.
No summary available.
Positions of new comet, calculated from 'Florence observations.'