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DCP-LETT-9110

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
23 Oct [1873]
Source of text:
DAR 271.3: 11
Summary:

Wants FD to look at the little lateral leaflets of Desmodium. CD has "a wild hypothesis that the little leaflets may be tendrils reconverted into leaflets".

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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FVM-73-10-23

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
James Francis
Date:
23 October 1873
Source of text:
C73/13734, unit 1022, VPRS 3991/P inward registered correspondence, VA 475 Chief Secretary's Department, Public Record Office, Victoria
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

DCP-LETT-9108

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
23 Oct [1873]
Source of text:
DAR 95: 282–3
Summary:

Neptunia is evidently a hopeless case.

Good news that fluid of Nepenthes is acid.

No discovery ever gave him more pleasure than proving a true act of digestion in Drosera.

Has become profoundly interested in Desmodium. Asks whether Frank [Darwin] can look over the whole dried collection of the genus.

Has JDH any seed of Lathyrus nissolia?

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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JHC1550

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Henry Bolus
Date:
23 October 1873
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/3 f.32, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

DCP-LETT-9109

From:
William Swift Wade
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 Oct 1873
Source of text:
DAR 181: 2
Summary:

Further details on inheritance of an eyelid abnormality.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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