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DCP-LETT-5251

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Hutton Balfour
Date:
21 Oct [1864]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh (Balfour papers)
Summary:

Thanks Balfour for Corydalis seed

and sends a photo of himself.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-4641

From:
Charles Buxton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 Oct 1864
Source of text:
DAR 160: 375, 394
Summary:

Forwards a letter from his head brewer, Laurence Burleigh, on yeast. They seldom exchange yeast with other brewers, and he doubts whether weak yeast from one brewery will ferment strongly in another.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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FL-0661

From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, H. E.
Date:
[21 October 1864]
Source of text:
DAR 219.9: 22
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters

Herschel9224

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Whewell
Date:
[21 October 1864]
Source of text:
TC, Camb. Add. Ms.a.207115 (C: RS:HS 24.62)
Summary:

Sends Book XI of JH's Iliad translation. Comments on Book XI. Severe bronchitis continues.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-4640

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Benjamin Dann Walsh
Date:
21 Oct [1864]
Source of text:
Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago (Walsh)
Summary:

Thanks for letter and memoirs.

Suggests a "rather hopeless experiment" of introducing poisons into tissues of plants on the chance that monstrous growths may be produced.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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