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From:
Darwin, W. E.
To:
Darwin, Emma
Date:
7 October [1878]
Source of text:
DAR 210.5: 27
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert David Fitzgerald
Date:
7 Oct 1878
Source of text:
Mitchell Library, Sydney (A 2546)
Summary:
Thanks for pt 4 of Australian orchids [1874–].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Oct 1878
Source of text:
DAR 104: 118–20
Summary:
Botanical evidence is against F. B. White’s origin of St Helena fauna. JDH holds flora is S. African. Since plants must arrive before insects, if fauna is Palearctic then flora survived glacial period. Flora not Miocene since old and relic orders are absent. Suggests S. African west coastal mountains as insects’ origin.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Lister
Date:
7 Oct 1878
Source of text:
Godlee 1917, p. 387
Summary:
Suggests that benzoic acid would be a deadly poison to bacteria and their allies.
Is puzzled about the use of borax as a disinfectant because in his experiments Drosera were not in the least injured by boracic acid.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project