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DCP-LETT-5094

From:
Thomas Rivers
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 May 1866
Source of text:
DAR 176: 165
Summary:

Will be sure to send the Cytisus and Laburnum blooms when they flower.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5102

From:
Thomas Rivers
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 May 1866
Source of text:
DAR 176: 166; 176: 188.1
Summary:

Sends a sketch of the haricot climbing the shoot of the plum-tree [see 4866].

Hopes to see CD at the [Horticultural] Congress on Wednesday [30 May].

Sends data on movement direction of Wisteria shoots.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5114

From:
Thomas Rivers
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 June 1866
Source of text:
DAR 176: 167
Summary:

Sends blooms of Cytisus purpureus-elongatus.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5235

From:
Thomas Rivers
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Oct 1866
Source of text:
DAR 176: 168
Summary:

Has searched scores of purple-fruited nut-trees, but not a nut is to be found. Has heard there are some nearby and will send them as soon as he receives them.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5242

From:
Thomas Rivers
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 Oct 1866
Source of text:
DAR 176: 169
Summary:

Sends CD a letter from Mr Claydon responding to TR’s doubts and confirming the truth of a report that a farmer had "transmuted" oats into barley.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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