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DCP-LETT-6201

From:
Joseph Bullar
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 May 1868
Source of text:
DAR 160: 372
Summary:

Is interested in CD’s remarks on role of pollen in modifying ovarium. Sends his own observations on numerical relations of stamens and pistils to divisions in the ovarium.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-6202

From:
William Winwood Reade
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 May 1868
Source of text:
DAR 176: 34
Summary:

Will answer CD’s queries from Africa.

Reports extreme amazement of some natives in Gabon upon seeing a white man for the first time.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6203

From:
William Henty
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 May 1868
Source of text:
DAR 85: B24, DAR 166: 182
Summary:

Sex ratios in cattle and sheep.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel354

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
[23 May 1868]
Source of text:
RGO 6.16.31
Summary:

Not well enough to attend Visitation Day at the Royal Observatory; fears JH will not likely attend any future meetings and should perhaps withdraw from the Board of Visitors.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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