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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Litchfield, H. E.
Date:
[1875]
Source of text:
DAR 219.9: 122a
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Darwin Family Letters
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Sends date of his mother’s death – 7 Apr 1859.
Was completely mystified by conjuring performance of [John Nevil] Maskelyne.
Asks permission to republish his climbing plants paper [J. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Bot.) 9 (1867): 1–118] in a corrected form [Climbing plants].
Had two mornings working on Drosera but it was sluggish. Frog preparations are pretty good.
Asks whether he might copy two of FJC’s drawings of Aldrovanda. He would like to have a proof of the plate for two woodcuts to be used in his forthcoming book [Insectivorous plants].