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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Daniel Oliver
Date:
24 Apr [1862]
Source of text:
DAR 261.10: 47 (EH 88206030)
Summary:

Thanks for Oxalis. Only experimentation will show whether disproportion of long- to short-styled flowers is a functional dimorphism.

Case of aestival flowers is very curious.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Thomas Gold Appleton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 Apr [1862]
Source of text:
DAR 159: 111
Summary:

Sends letter via his brother visiting England. Awaits continuation of CD’s "wonderful book", which excites much interest.

Comments on Civil War which he expects will end slavery.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Berthold Carl Seemann
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 Apr 1862
Source of text:
DAR 177: 130, DAR 50: E28
Summary:

Encloses a passage from his book, The botany of the voyage of H.M.S. "Herald" [1852–7].

Discusses possibility of publishing work on flora of Hawaiian Islands.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project