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From:
Hermann Crüger
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 Jan 1864
Source of text:
DAR 161: 278
Summary:

Sends his MS of orchid paper ["A few notes on the fecundation of orchids and their morphology", J. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Bot.) 8 (1865): 127–35] for CD to send to an editor.

CD was right about Catasetum sexes.

Ficus experiments fail.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Thomas Spring-Rice
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[21 January 1864]
Source of text:
RS:HS 14.481
Summary:

Platinum pound-weight standard is deteriorating. Wants Treasury to bring it and the yard standard under observation of surviving committee members.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project