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From:
Frederic Francis Hallett
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 May 1875
Source of text:
DAR 166: 89
Summary:

Sends his paper to show his priority over John Le Couteur. Claims discovery of the "law of development" of cereals.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Frederic Francis Hallett
Date:
[19 or 20 May 1875]
Source of text:
DAR 97: C26
Summary:

Thanks FFH for his note and enclosure [see 9982]. Quotes from Le Couteur [On … wheat (1836)?] to justify statements made in Variation [1868].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Frederic Francis Hallett
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 May 1875
Source of text:
DAR 166: 90
Summary:

Insists that he, not Le Couteur, was the first to recognise and exploit variation within wheat varieties. Disturbed he was not acknowledged in Variation.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project