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Darwin Correspondence Project

From J. S. Henslow1   [5 August 1843]

I was reading in the Botanical Register for this month an account of Mr Herberts hybrid Narcissus with pictures—2 I think you mentioned the subject so you may like to know of it.

Footnotes

Identified from the handwriting.

Bibliography

Herbert, William. 1843. Hybrid Narcissi. Edwards’s Botanical Register, plate 38.

Summary

Calls CD’s attention to an article about William Herbert’s hybrid Narcissus.

Letter details

Letter no.
DCP-LETT-687
From
John Stevens Henslow
To
Charles Robert Darwin
Sent from
unstated
Postmark
5 AU ⁠⟨⁠5⁠⟩⁠ 1843
Source of text
DAR 205.7: 282
Physical description
AL inc

Please cite as

Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 687,” accessed on 19 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-687.xml

Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 2

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