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From:
Augustus De Morgan
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[8 August 1863]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.366
Summary:

Wife and family are on holiday at Portmadoc. Obtains his rhymes from Thomas Wright's Political Songs of England. Relates a tale of how a priest tricked a farmer in medieval times.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-4265

From:
Hermann Crüger
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Aug 1863
Source of text:
DAR 161: 277, 277/1
Summary:

Thanks for presentation copy of Linum paper [Collected papers 2: 93–105].

Ficus experiments confirm CD’s supposition that insects visit Melastoma for nectar, but HC thinks pollen-seekers fertilise the flowers.

Maranta fertilisation.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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