From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Gardeners’ Chronicle
Date:
21 May [1855]
Source of text:
Gardeners’ Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette , no. 21, 26 May 1855, pp. 356–7
Summary:
Reports on his experiments on action of sea-water on seeds and the bearing of his investigations on the theory of centres of creation and Edward Forbes’s theory of continental extensions to account for distribution of organic forms. CD’s experiments confirm germination powers were retained after 42 days’ immersion by seven out of eight kinds of seeds.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project