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DCP-LETT-10588

From:
Phebe Ann Coffin Hanaford
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Sept 1876
Source of text:
DAR 166: 92
Summary:

PAH’s friend, a florist, is repeating CD’s experiments with Dionaea muscipula.

CD’s works stir interest in America.

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Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10610A

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Phebe Ann Coffin Hanaford
Date:
19 Sept 1876
Source of text:
Nantucket Historical Association Research Library (MS 38, Phebe Ann Hanaford Papers, 1848–1949, Folder 6)
Summary:

Pleased to hear of Peter Henderson’s intended experiment [on Drosera, see 10588]. Asks that she tell Mr Henderson that he believes good derived from animal diet will be shown only by production of larger number of seeds and more luxuriant growth in the ensuing year. Wishes to hear the results.

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