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DCP-LETT-2006

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Stevens Henslow
Date:
[after 6 Dec 1856]
Source of text:
DAR 93: A115
Summary:

He is steadily and very hard at work on "Variation" [Natural selection] and finds the whole subject "deeply interesting but horribly perplexed".

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-2012

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Gardeners’ Chronicle
Date:
[before 6 Dec 1856]
Source of text:
Gardeners’ Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette , 6 December 1856, p. 806
Summary:

CD is collecting all the evidence he can on natural crossing of varieties of plants. Asks readers of Gardeners’ Chronicle to give evidence "showing either that Leguminous crops, when grown close together do sometimes cross or on the other hand that they may invariably be grown close together without any chance of deterioration".

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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