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DCP-LETT-3882

From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 Dec 1862
Source of text:
DAR 109: 85, DAR 165: 126
Summary:

Encloses maize seeds.

Has heard of a butterfly with pollinia of Platanthera stuck to it.

Comments on AG’s notes ["Dimorphism in the genitalia of flowers", Am. J. Sci. 2d ser. 34 (1862): 149–50].

"Precocious fertilisation".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-3879F

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 29 Dec 1862]
Source of text:
DAR 101: 85
Summary:

Comments on items in the Saturday Review and the Edinburgh Review.

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DCP-LETT-3881

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
29 [Dec 1862]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 175
Summary:

Genera plantarum reviewed in Parthenon by a man who says JDH is disgraced by being "obviously tinged with Darwinism".

CD by chance has found that Saturday Review article [14 (1862): 589] on Duke of Argyll was written by his [CD’s] nephew, Henry Parker.

Asa Gray sends American newspapers which CD never reads.

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DCP-LETT-3883

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Hugh Falconer
Date:
29 Dec [1862]
Source of text:
DAR 144: 28
Summary:

Has HF met with any cases of what gardeners call "sports" and what CD will call "bud-variations"?

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