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To George Maw   21 June [1866]

Down. | Bromley. | Kent. S.E.

June 21st

My dear Sir

I am very much obliged to you for your great kindness in remembering my desire for information about sports, & for the curious & nicely dried specimen received yesterday. As it happens I have already seen this case, but I am not the less grateful to you for your kindness—1

Pray believe me | Yours very faithfully | Ch. Darwin

Postmark: London S X JL[U] 22 66; Broseley JU 2[3] 66

1
Maw had sent CD a fragment of a fern-leaved beech (Fagus sylvatica ‘Asplenifolia’) bearing a branch of the normal form of foliage (see letter from George Maw, 18 June 1866 and n. 2). In Variation 1: 382, CD referred to other cases in which the buds of the fern-leaved beech had reverted to the normal form; or had reverted only partially, so that branches bore both normal and fern-like leaves, as well as variously shaped leaves. CD cited information from Braun 1853, p. 315, and Gardeners’ Chronicle 1841, p. 329.

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-5130,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-5130