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From:
John Gibbs
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Feb 1877
Source of text:
DAR 165: 38
Summary:

Thanks CD for Orchids. Has written a notice for Chelmsford Chronicle.

Finds some botanical observations on inflorescences.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
John Gibbs
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 Feb 1877
Source of text:
DAR 165: 39
Summary:

Thanks CD for his advice. No doubt one may be misled by a few experiments in matters on which many forces come into play. Describes his plans to observe the flowering of 23 plants of Lychnis gilhago raised from a single capsule.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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