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DCP-LETT-4451

From:
Philip Henry Gosse
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 Apr 1864
Source of text:
DAR 165: 79
Summary:

Asks how he can identify pollen-tubes.

Has succeeded in impregnating orchids of widely different genera with each other’s pollinia. "Is not this something new?"

Offers to exchange Catasetum for other varieties.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-4450

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
5 Apr [1864]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 227a–c
Summary:

Sees difficulty of placing Scott at Kew. Suspects Balfour is prejudiced because Scott is a Darwinian.

CD’s former letter on Clematis [4403] blundered; work now being revised.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Herschel4210

From:
Isaac Todhunter
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[6 April 1864]
Source of text:
RS:HS 17.353
Summary:

Printing History of the Mathematical Theory of Probability. Inquires about a probability calculation of Wilhelm Struve's in JH's Outlines Astr.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Tyndall2083

From:
John Tyndall
To:
Thomas Archer Hirst
Date:
Tuesday | April 5th. 1864
Source of text:
MS JT/1/T/659; MS JT/1/HTYP/525, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

Tyndall2084

From:
John Tyndall
To:
Thomas Archer Hirst
Date:
Tuesday | April 5th. 1864
Source of text:
MS JT/1/T/658; MS JT/1/HTYP/525, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

Tyndall2082

From:
John Tyndall
To:
William Francis
Date:
5th. April 1864
Source of text:
Authors' Letters, St Bride Library
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

DCP-LETT-4451F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
[after 5 Apr 1864?]
Source of text:
DAR 157.2: 99
Summary:

Enquires about the relationship of English grains to French milligrammes.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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