From:
William Whitman Bailey
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[Nov 1877]
Source of text:
DAR 160: 17
Summary:
Encloses flowers. Long-styled form may be a sport.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Encloses flowers. Long-styled form may be a sport.
Regrets he cannot accept JC’s invitation to the [Master’s] Lodge [of Christ’s College] when he comes to Cambridge to accept his LL.D., as his health demands he stay quite by himself.
Wants HD to observe earthworm activity at Roman antiquities of Chedworth and Cirencester.
Describes case of two varieties of Russian wheat, the kubanka (or White Turkish) and the saxonka, which grow side by side with no intermediate varieties. As kubanka gradually yields place to saxonka, thinks an unusual tendency to jumping variation [saltation] operates; suggests CD urge some young botanist to investigate [see ML 2: 419–22].