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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Daniel Oliver
Date:
[31? Oct 1860]
Source of text:
DAR 261.10: 19 (EH 88206003)
Summary:

The best way to see cell movement in Drosera hair, is to cut off those lately inflected over a fly, sketch shape of red matter under high power, and repeat after one or two minutes.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
31 Oct [1860]
Source of text:
Archives of the Gray Herbarium, Harvard University (45 and 124a)
Summary:

Talks of getting copies of AG’s Atlantic Monthly articles for distribution in England.

Describes the pollinating mechanisms of Orchis pyramidalis and Spiranthes autumnalis.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Medows Rodwell
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
31 Oct 1860
Source of text:
DAR 47: 167–8
Summary:

Observations on his white blue-eyed cat. There is no sign of deafness.

Apropos of ch. 5 of Origin, tells of blind rats found when a Roman bridge was excavated.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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