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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
[before 29 May 1879]
Source of text:
DAR 271.4: 13
Summary:

Try to find and read [a German] account of the fir-trees affected by some fungus which produces upright shoots. CD wants to know whether the case is same as what he has observed in the silver fir. Includes diagram.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 May 1879
Source of text:
DAR 274.1: 54
Summary:

Fungus is an Aecidium. Porliera, Anthuriums and Aroids will hopefully sprout if weather gets hot. Sachs has changed his ideas about the cause of heliotropism. Describes men he is sharing a lab with.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project