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DCP-LETT-12411

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alexander Stephen Wilson
Date:
8 Jan 1880
Source of text:
DAR 148: 369
Summary:

Glad ASW has solved puzzle of outer seeds.

Quite agrees about great improbability of sudden transformations.

Asks for copy of report from Gardeners’ Chronicle [see 12404].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12478

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alexander Stephen Wilson
Date:
13 Feb 1880
Source of text:
DAR 148: 370
Summary:

Thanks for articles by ASW in Gardeners’ Chronicle [see 12404]. Agrees with him.

Asks about growth of rootlets from knobs caused by fungus on roots of Cruciferae.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12495

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alexander Stephen Wilson
Date:
20 Feb 1880
Source of text:
DAR 148: 371
Summary:

Speculates on origin of habit [of insects?] of laying eggs on plants of certain families.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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