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From:
Georg Michael Asher
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 Feb 1878
Source of text:
DAR 159: 120
Summary:

Apologises for taking liberty of request made in previous letter.

Tells CD ways in which large box of wheat specimens might be shipped from St Petersburg.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Mikhail Nikolaevich Galkin-Vraskoi (Михаил Николаевич Галкин-Враской)
Date:
16 Feb 1878
Source of text:
Russian State Archive of Literature and Arts (RGALI), Moscow (fund 1347, dossier 3, file 138)
Summary:

CD has been informed by G. M. [Asher] that G-W has undertaken the shipment of "Froment des Steppes" for examination. He is most grateful. [See 11361.]

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Louis Charles Joseph Gaston (Gaston) de Saporta, comte de Saporta
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 Feb 1878
Source of text:
DAR 177: 35
Summary:

Discusses the difficulty of reconstructing angiosperm phylogeny.

Discovery of polar fossil plants helps explain migrations.

Hooker has identification of GdeS’s Permian fossil.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
16 Feb [1878]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Thiselton-Dyer, W. T., Letters from Charles Darwin 1873–81: 110–11)
Summary:

Wants Trifolium resupinatum for "bloom" experiment.

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Darwin Correspondence Project