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From:
Ernest Ayscoghe Floyer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 Sept 1878
Source of text:
DAR 205.2: 231
Summary:

Sends fruit of date-palm which has not been impregnated by pollen from a male.

Has read Origin, which "puts everything straight".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Ernest Ayscoghe Floyer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after 22 Sept 1878?]
Source of text:
DAR 194: 41
Summary:

Sends an example of natural selection: survival of water-buffalo eating Indian corn submerged by flooding might depend on how long animal could keep nose under water. Encloses measurements of this behaviour.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project