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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
[31 May 1862]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 98
Summary:

Wants WED to forward dried Malaxis to G. C. Oxenden.

Has been dissecting Viola flowers.

[Letter from Emma Darwin to WED, verso p. 3.]

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Edward Joseph Lowe
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[31 May 1862]
Source of text:
RS:HS 11.335
Summary:

Please accept the enclosed book, which he has dedicated to JH. Has been unsuccessful at the R.S.L. Hopes some day to have ample means with which to pursue science.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
George Chichester Oxenden
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
31 May [1862]
Source of text:
DAR 173.2: 51
Summary:

Sends plants.

The disappearance of rare plants from localities where they have been abundant can be explained.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Thomas Parsons
Date:
[31 May 1862]
Source of text:
RS:HS 13.224 & 23.377
Summary:

Outlines the early life of his father, Sir William Herschel, and shows that the cutting received from the Stroud Journal was inaccurate. [Marked 'not sent.']

Contributor:
John Herschel Project