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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, H. E.
Date:
28 September [1868]
Source of text:
DAR 219.9: 61
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
No summary available.
The wheat and oat specimen has been examined "in congress" by Oliver, Bentham, Asa Gray, and JDH. No organic connection of any kind.
The election of 1868.
Remarkable deflection of the plummet observed east of Forres.
Asks him to thank E. L. Layard for trouble taken.
Says Zoological Society "very foolishly" wants no specimens of domestic varieties [from Ceylon].