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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Herbert George Henry Norman
Date:
[after 30 Nov 1866]
Source of text:
Christie’s (dealers) (20 June 1990)
Summary:

Thanks his correspondent for remembering to send him a woodcock’s leg and informing him that "from a ball of earth attached to the leg of a Red Partridge no less than 82 plants germinated". [See 5287.]

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Herbert George Henry Norman
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
30 Nov 1866
Source of text:
DAR 172: 75
Summary:

Encloses foot of a woodcock with earth attached. CD asked about this many years ago with reference to seed dispersal.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project