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From:
Oswald Heer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 Sept 1875
Source of text:
DAR 166: 132
Summary:

Comments on Insectivorous plants.

Describes his own work on fossil flora of Eastern Siberia.

Discusses genus Ginkgo.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 Sept 1875
Source of text:
DAR 209.6: 208
Summary:

Reports on Schrankia aculeata in which pinna and pinnule are sensitive, but, unlike Mimosa pudica, rachis does not move.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
George John Romanes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 Sept 1875
Source of text:
E. D. Romanes 1896, pp. 34–7
Summary:

Sends specimens of grafted potatoes. Describes grafting experiments designed to prove possibility of graft-hybrids, and thus, Pangenesis.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Miles Joseph Berkeley
Date:
29 September 1875
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/2 f.290, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
30 Sept 1875
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Thiselton-Dyer, W.T., Letters from Charles Darwin 1873–81: 27–8)
Summary:

CD obliged about the Schrankia

and thanks WTT-D for details of last number of Gardeners’ Chronicle.

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Darwin Correspondence Project