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From:
Maxwell Tylden Masters
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 Sept 1869
Source of text:
DAR 171: 81
Summary:

Robert Fenn exhibited potatoes at the Horticultural Society which showed general failure of graft-hybrids and provided an example of reversion to a wild Peruvian tuber resulting from cross-fertilisation.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Albrecht Carl Ludwig Gotthilf (Albert) Günther
Date:
21 Sept 1869
Source of text:
Shrewsbury School, Taylor Library; DAR 82: B14–15
Summary:

Sends a list of queries for AG.

Asks whether AG can supply specimens for illustrations [for Descent]. Hopes Mr Ford will do the drawings.

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Darwin Correspondence Project