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From:
George Bentham
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
21 February 1873
Source of text:
RB MSS M3, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne
Summary:
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Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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Will see whether formic acid delays germination of fresh seeds.
Thinks primer not at all a folly. Refers JDH to Asa Gray’s "child’s book" [see 8363].
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Comments on CD’s and William Huggins’ letter in Nature on "Inherited instinct" [Collected papers 2: 170–1]
and on A. R. Wallace’s letter on the homing faculty of animals. Believes many instances of homing are less remarkable than they appear.