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From:
Thomas Bell
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
4 May 1855
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 15
Summary:

Discusses publication and distribution of the Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnaean Society. Also discusses the influence of the Society and the status of natural sciences at Cambridge.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
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From:
Leonard Horner
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
5 May 1855
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 178
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
11 May [1855]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 131
Summary:

JDH to be appointed Assistant Director at Kew.

On where to publish seed-salting paper. Floating problem perhaps more important than germination.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
15 [May 1855]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 147
Summary:

CD upset because salted seeds do not float.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Joseph Prestwich
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
18 May 1855
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 265
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 May 1855
Source of text:
DAR 106: D1–D2
Summary:

Has filled up CD’s paper [see 1674].

Distribution and relationships of alpine flora in U. S.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
27 May [1855]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 132
Summary:

CD’s seed paper in Gardeners’ Chronicle [Collected papers 1: 255–8];

CD attacks Forbes’s "Atlantis".

Considers solutions to floating problem. Decides to test Azores seeds.

Photographs and drawings of CD.

Plant movement experiments with Hedysarum gyrans.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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