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From:
Darwin, H. E.
To:
Darwin, Elizabeth
Date:
9 [April] 1866
Source of text:
DAR 219.10: 5
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
No summary available.
Invites CD to dine and meet Alphonse de Candolle.
Sad about Oliver’s loss.
JDH’s reference to odd Begonia at same time as an article about it came out in Gardeners’ Chronicle [(1866): 313–14].
Is astonished that Pangenesis seems perplexing to JDH. Pleads guilty to its being "wildly abominably speculative (worthy even of Herbert Spencer)".
Structure of Scaevola and its fertilisation with insect aid.
Fertilisation of Aristolochia.
FM’s paper on climbing plants [see 5146].
Is preparing new edition of Origin.