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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Richard Irwin Lynch
Date:
4 Dec [1878]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

Encloses letter of recommendation for RIL [for position as Curator, Botanic Garden, Cambridge?]. [See 11770.]

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Syndics of Cambridge Botanic Garden
Date:
4 Dec 1878
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

Letter recommending R. I. Lynch [for position as Curator, Botanic Garden, Cambridge].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
4 Dec [1878]
Source of text:
DAR 261.8: 27 (EH 88205965)
Summary:

Has observed, perhaps erroneously, that certain plants were excited to movement by a prolonged high note on the bassoon. Would now like to try a siren and asks JT to bring one from the Royal Institution.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
John Wallace
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
4 December 1878
Source of text:
California Historical Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project