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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, Leonard
Date:
24 March [1882]
Source of text:
DAR 239.23: 2.5
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Darwin Family Letters
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CD and other friends who got up fund for GA in 1879 have now bought him a microscope; thanks CD, especially as the idea came from him; plans to take up original observations with it.
Mechanism of flowers of Maranta has already been described by F. H. G. Hildebrand and Federico Delpino.
According to John Gwyn Jeffreys’ book [British conchology (1862–9)] shell is Sphaerium corneum, a synonym of Cyclas cornea.
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