From:
William Kemp
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Nov 1843
Source of text:
DAR 50: A16
Summary:
Thanks CD for kind letter concerning seeds. Believes soil in which they were planted was contaminated.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Thanks CD for kind letter concerning seeds. Believes soil in which they were planted was contaminated.
Babington has reared a facsimile [of W. Kemp’s Atriplex] by sowing seeds of A. angustifolia. CD has advised Kemp not to publish since anyone would say it was more probable that the seeds of his specimens were in the soil, than that the ones he found had retained vitality. CD regrets this, as he has no doubt of the antiquity of the seeds.