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To H. G. H. Norman   [after 30 November 1866]1

[thanking his correspondent for remembering to send him a woodcock’s leg and informing him that ‘from a ball of earth attached to the leg of a Red Partridge no less than 82 plants germinated’]2

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1
The recipient and date are established by the relationship between this letter and the letter from H. G. H. Norman, 30 November 1866.
2
See letter from H. G. H. Norman, 30 November 1866. For the germination of seeds in a ball of earth attached to the foot of a partridge, see Correspondence vol. 12, letter to Alfred Newton, 29 March [1864] and nn. 3 and 4.

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-5287A,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-5287A