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From George Maw   14 January 1869

Benthall Hall, | nr. Broseley.

Jany 14. 69

Dear Sir

I am very pleased to find I can be of any use to you. I will make a note as to the age of horning of Merino Lambs & try & get some information1

With reference to the drosphyllum could you send me a dried specimen to look at which I will return you.2 I am not acquainted with the plant nor is it mentioned by Kelaart in his Flora Calpensis or by Munby in the little work he published on the Flora of the N African coast but if I can see a dried specimen I will do my best to find it & send it by post as I shall be some weeks in the neighbourhood of Gibraltar & am generally lucky in finding plants I want to get.3

I am Dr Sir | Very truly | Geo Maw

C Darwin Esq

2
Maw refers to the insectivorous plant Drosophyllum (see letter to George Maw, 13 January 1869 and n. 3).
3
Maw refers to Edward Frederick Kelaart’s Flora Calpensis (Kelaart 1846) and Giles Munby’s Flore d’Algèrie (Munby 1847).

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-6553,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-6553