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DCP-LETT-3559

From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 May 1862
Source of text:
DAR 165: 109
Summary:

Has received first sheets of Orchids and is very impressed. "What a skill & genius you have for these researches."

Details of U. S. orchids.

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DCP-LETT-3558

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[18 May 1862]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 154
Summary:

Leschenaultia seems very odd. Will try with pollen left on for 48 hours. Illustrates diversity of structures for same purpose.

Bentham’s and Oliver’s good opinion of Orchids is reassuring.

Anxious to experiment on Melastomataceae; thinks it will give important results.

Wants Leschenaultia formosa to try whether viscid outside surface can be fertilised.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Tyndall1897

From:
John Tyndall
To:
Juliet Pollock
Date:
Satuday night | 18th May 1862
Source of text:
MS JT/1/T/1137, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

DCP-LETT-3560

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alexander Goodman More
Date:
18 May [1862]
Source of text:
Royal Irish Academy (A. G. More papers RIA MS 4 B 46)
Summary:

Asks AGM to experiment on Epipactis palustris.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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