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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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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Philip Henry Gosse
Date:
7 Apr [1864]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.298)
Summary:

Discusses microscopic observation of pollen tubes.

Unable to exchange orchids because of his illness.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project