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DCP-LETT-4207

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
8 [June 1863]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 158
Summary:

Sends Asa Gray letter to JDH. Gray’s "Coolness about England and U. S. beats anything".

John Scott’s difficulties at Edinburgh Botanic Garden.

JS’s paper on Primula crossing experiments.

Sends MS note about closing of stigma in orchids being dependent on affinity of pollen and independent of protusion of pollen-tubes.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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Tyndall2014

From:
John Tyndall
To:
George Gabriel Stokes
Date:
8th June 1863
Source of text:
SC--add 7656, CUL
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

Herschel5553

From:
Sir Isaac L. Bell
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[8 June 1863]
Source of text:
RS:HS 4.43
Summary:

Is sorry to hear that JH is unable to attend the B.A.A.S. meeting. Has been working on a new formula for thallium, and will forward a sample if required.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-4208

From:
George Henry Kendrick Thwaites
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 June 1863
Source of text:
DAR 178: 121–2
Summary:

Dimorphism in Linum.

Situation in some of the lower Algae is analogous to that in phaenogams. In some, conjugation occurs between separate filaments, in others between cells of same filament.

Forwards a letter from S. O. Glenie enclosing specimens of Cassia fistula which show the two forms of the anthers.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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