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From:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 3 Feb 1878]
Source of text:
DAR 178: 91
Summary:

The amphicarpic habit.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
3 Feb [1878]
Source of text:
DAR 210.1: 67
Summary:

CD at first thought GHD should not answer Haughton [see 10689], but Hooker thinks if no correction is made Haughton’s error will be quoted for 20 years. CD is now inclined to agree.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Feb 1878
Source of text:
DAR 160: 169, DAR 165: 199
Summary:

AG’s review of Joseph Cook ["Lectures on biology", New Englander 37: 100–13].

Encourages CD to work at heliotropism.

Thinks Thomas Meehan is as "rattle-brained" as Joseph Cook.

[A damaged fragment cut from this letter is pinned to 11051.]

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
3 Feb [1878]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Thiselton-Dyer, W. T., Letters from Charles Darwin 1873–81: 108–9)
Summary:

Thanks for letter. CD now has all the seeds and information he requires.

Value and origin of amphicarpic habit.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
William Allingham
Date:
3 February 1878
Source of text:
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Rare Book and Manuscript Library: William Allingham Collection: Box 2, Folder 299
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project