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From:
Worthington George Smith
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Nov 1870
Source of text:
DAR 177: 200
Summary:

Describes his children, who all seem to have inherited both dark hairs from their mother and light hairs from WGS with the latter greatly outnumbering the former.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Worthington George Smith
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 July 1877
Source of text:
DAR 177: 201
Summary:

Reports a fossil fungus, complete with fossil zoospores, within the vascular bundles of a Lepidodendron from the Coal Measures. The genus is Pythium and it appears no different from living species.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Worthington George Smith
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
27 July 1877
Source of text:
DAR 177: 202
Summary:

Has examined some sea-kale and iris leaves sent by CD and does not think the scars are caused by fungus but rather through the action of insects. Feels "bloom" may protect leaves from such insect attack.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project