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DCP-LETT-3293

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
22 Oct [1861]
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 177)
Summary:

Mr Campbell (recommended by H. Spencer) would be a treasure but doubts any man has patience to experiment at another’s suggestion.

Jocular comments about THH’s audacity in doubting Catasetum.

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Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3294

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
22 Oct [1861]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 80
Summary:

Tells of a shooting competition at Down.

Has been working hard at orchid drawings with G. B. Sowerby, Jr.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-3778

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Journal of Horticulture
Date:
[before 22 Oct 1861]
Source of text:
Journal of Horticulture, Cottage Gardener, and Country Gentleman n.s. 2 (1861–2): 76
Summary:

Asks H. W. Newman whether the queen humble-bee is fertilised on the ground or in the air, and whether the fertilisation often takes place as late as September. [Newman’s reply follows CD’s letter.]

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