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DCP-LETT-2901

From:
Jeffries Wyman
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[c. 15] Sept 1860
Source of text:
DAR 47: 165–6
Summary:

Cases of monstrosities becoming transmissible.

Comments on passages in Origin on the blindness of the tucu-tucu (Ctenomys) and Mammoth Cave rats.

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DCP-LETT-2919

From:
Thomas Vernon Wollaston
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[16 Sept 1860]
Source of text:
DAR 205.3: 302
Summary:

Has received a batch of S. African specimens which contain many of the Atlantic genera he found in Madeira and the Canaries.

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DCP-LETT-2920A

From:
James Drummond
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Sept 1860
Source of text:
DAR 157a
Summary:

Reports observations on the fertilisation of Goodeniaceae, and particularly Leschenaultia. [See 2992.]

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DCP-LETT-2921

From:
Daniel Oliver
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 Sept 1860
Source of text:
DAR 58.1: 12–13
Summary:

CD’s observations on preference of Drosera for milk and nitrogenous fluids, and the effect of nitrate of ammonia are interesting. Asks whether CD is satisfied that the effect is not due to density of fluid or to a chemical irritant. His own observations suggest such possibilities.

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DCP-LETT-2927

From:
Daniel Oliver
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 Sept 1860
Source of text:
DAR 58.1: 1–3
Summary:

His results with pure gum on Drosera spathulata entirely support CD’s opinion. Other observations on insectivorous plants.

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