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From:
Samuel Pickworth Woodward
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 June 1863
Source of text:
DAR 181: 155
Summary:

Has been writing a notice of H. W. Bates’s "capital book" [Naturalist on the river Amazons (1863)].

P. M. Duncan’s coral paper [J. Geol. Soc. Lond. 29 (1863): 406–58] strengthens SPW’s belief in the general diffusion of marine forms westward in the course of time.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Philip Henry Gosse
Date:
5 June [1863]
Source of text:
Lieutenant-Colonel James Innes (private collection); sold at Christie‘s New York (dealers), 15 November 2011, lot 55
Summary:

PHG’s hypothesis [regarding the self-fertilising mechanism of Stanhopea] may prove quite true, but CD suggests that PHG should observe another spike to make sure. CD will observe his Stanhopea if it flowers.

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