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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, W. E.
Date:
[19 November 1862]
Source of text:
DAR 219.1: 68
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
No summary available.
Praises JS’s experimenting.
Has he ever studied the relative fertility of varieties? CD very interested in this subject.
Discusses Acropera.
Wants to quote JS on Zea [Variation 1: 321].
CD sends his Primula paper [Collected papers 2: 45–63].
No summary available.
Thanks for letter. Further regarding Our Satellite by A. D'Orsan and its similarity to a work of Warren de La Rue.
Accounts for money spent in reducing JH's catalogue of nebulae. Encloses sample page from catalogue and Astronomische Nachrichten No. 1392 [see JH's 1862-11-18].