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From:
James Anderson
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Apr 1863
Source of text:
DAR 159: 59
Summary:

Sends CD seeds of Cattleya crispa as requested [see Collected papers 2: 77–8].

Anticipates success for his attempts to cross orchids artificially. Has not had a single seed germinate from a pod that was not produced by artificial crossing.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
James Anderson
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 June 1863
Source of text:
DAR 70: 181
Summary:

Sends a capsule of Dendrobium cretaceum. [See Orchids, 2d ed.]

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
James Anderson
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after 24 Feb 1871?]
Source of text:
DAR 159: 72
Summary:

Sends two books detailing a new medical method that will produce "a state of health & vigour on every occasion & in every instance" and is applicable to "the entire circle of animated nature" [William Hibbert, Important discovery. Hibbert’s new theory and practice of medicine (1870) and The new theory and practice of medicine (1870)]. The volumes apply to animals and man. Subsequent books will detail the method for insects and plants.

[Letter erroneously addressed to E. A. Darwin, and forwarded by EAD to CD.]

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