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DCP-LETT-2177

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Bentham
Date:
1 Dec [1857]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Bentham Correspondence, Vol. 3, Daintree–Dyer, 1830–1884, GEB/1/3: ff. 682–3)
Summary:

Thanks GB for his help on naturalised plants; comments on spreading of plants.

Wants to quote GB on the names of species and varieties of Silene on which C. F. von Gärtner experimented.

Thinks GB will be disappointed in his book [Natural selection]. "It will be grievously too hypothetical."

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2177F

From:
James Buckman
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[1 Dec 1857]
Source of text:
Gardeners’ Chronicle , 2 January 1858, p. 11
Summary:

Discusses the relative growth of native and foreign weeds.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel8402

From:
Mary H. Lubbock
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
1857-12
Source of text:
RS:HS 19.287
Summary:

Preparing for wedding. Thanks JH for present. Happy that JH's daughter 'Lou' [Margaret Louisa Herschel?] will be bridesmaid.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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