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From:
William Henry Harvey
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
23 Nov [1860]
Source of text:
DAR 47: 218–19
Summary:

Has found some funny evidences of transmutation in Cliffortia. Sketches gradual passage "from very unlike to same" – e.g., from three-leafed form to two-leafed.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Daniel Oliver
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 Nov 1860
Source of text:
DAR 157a
Summary:

Dr Hooker has given him CD’s memorandum on the fly-catcher.

Copies out extract from Curtis’ Botanical Magazine [On Apocynum androsæmifolium, 8 (1794): tab.]: 280 and gives a further reference in Erasmus Darwin’s The loves of plants [1789]. Suggests that they look at Apocynum.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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