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DCP-LETT-1467

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William & Julius Fairbeard
Date:
[Oct 1855 – May 1856]
Source of text:
DAR 206: 38
Summary:

Five questions on variability in peas.

W & JF recommended to CD by Mr Cattell.

CD planted an experimental pea garden this summer.

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DCP-LETT-1763

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
10 Oct [1855]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 151
Summary:

Sick of seed-salting.

Reading Candolle with great interest.

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DCP-LETT-1765

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Stevens Henslow
Date:
12 Oct [1855]
Source of text:
DAR 93: A117–18
Summary:

Is impressed by all JSH is doing with his lectures and exhibitions at Hitcham.

Has read admirable Hooker MS on variation, geographical range, etc. [Introductory essay to the Flora Indica (1855)].

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DCP-LETT-1742

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
18 [Oct 1855]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 146
Summary:

Seeds of two tropical island plants have floated for ten days.

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DCP-LETT-1770

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Stevens Henslow
Date:
29 Oct [1855]
Source of text:
DAR 93: A101–A102
Summary:

Gives directions for sending seeds collected at Hitcham. The Lychnis and Myosotis have come up. Will begin their "torments" next spring [i.e., experiments to produce "sports"].

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