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DCP-LETT-3530

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[16 May 1862]
Source of text:
DAR 261.11: 27 (EH 88206079))
Summary:

Has dissected Leschenaultia biloba flowers. Finds no stigmatic surface in the indusium. Describes what is the apparent stigma but has found no pollen-tubes to confirm it as the real one.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel2020

From:
John Eustace Prescott
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[16 May 1862]
Source of text:
RS:HS 14.52
Summary:

Thinks application of heat will not harm carbonate of lead crystal, and urges JH to 'boil, torture, or otherwise put it to the question in whatever way' JH sees fit.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-3552

From:
Dorothy Fanny Walpole; Dorothy Fanny Nevill
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[16? May 1862]
Source of text:
DAR 172.1: 25
Summary:

Thanks CD for his book [Orchids].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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