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DCP-LETT-12357

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
16 Dec 1879
Source of text:
Archives of the Gray Herbarium, Harvard University (130a)
Summary:

Thanks for AG’s trouble about the seeds. Is curious to see their germination and the early seedling growth.

Asks for cotton seeds, as he observes odd movements of the cotyledon.

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DCP-LETT-12359

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Nature
Date:
16 Dec 1879
Source of text:
Nature , 8 January 1880, p. 237
Summary:

Reports information sent by E. Schulte [12254] on the colours of the male Diadema bolina.

Discusses extent to which consciousness came into play in the origin of certain instincts, including sexual display.

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