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From:
Samuel Newington
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
30 Aug 1875
Source of text:
DAR 172: 34
Summary:

Reports a competition between the air roots of two varieties of grapevines. The victor changed the flavour and shape of the loser’s fruit.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Samuel Newington
Date:
1 Sept [1875]
Source of text:
Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
Summary:

Cannot believe in possibility that the duck is a hybrid, but correlation accords with some other facts.

Requests specimens of berries and more information about the Madresfield Court vine.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Samuel Newington
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 Sept 1875
Source of text:
DAR 172: 35
Summary:

Tells CD of his many experiments on interarching vines, potato tubers, exudation of carbon dioxide from roots,

and the synchrony of the pulse and the step while walking.

Would like to meet CD.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Samuel Newington
Date:
17 Sept 1875
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.475)
Summary:

Thanks SN for his explanation of vines.

Discusses SN’s observation on roots secreting carbonic acid.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Samuel Newington
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Dec 1875
Source of text:
DAR 172: 36
Summary:

Reports on various observations and experiments: a duck–fowl hybrid with queer habits,

three cases of man–dog hybrids,

his interarching vine experiments,

and orange scale.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project