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From J. H. Gilbert   7 March 1881

Harpenden | St. Albans

March 7, 1881

Dear Mr. Darwin

I send from here today to be forwarded to Orpington from London by S.E.R. “How Crops Feed” and vols xiii xiv of the “Versuchsstationen” which are quite at your service for 2 or 3 weeks.1

The parcel is addressed Down, Orpington, by S.E.R. and I hope this is right.

I am, Yours sincerely | J. H. Gilbert

Footnotes

See letter to J. H. Gilbert, 25 February 1881. Gilbert sent a copy of How crops feed (S. W. Johnson [1870]). He also sent copies of the German journal Die landwirtschaftlichen Versuchs-Stationen (Agricultural research stations). CD had wanted to read an article (Detmer 1871) in volume 14 of the journal.

Bibliography

Detmer, Wilhelm. 1871. Die natürlichen Humuskörper des Bodens und ihre landwirthschaftliche Bedeutung. (Mittheilungen aus dem agriculturchemische Laboratorium der Universität Leipzig, VI.) Die Landwirtschaftlichen Versuchs-Stationen 14: 248–300.

Johnson, Samuel William. [1870.] How crops feed: a treatise on the atmosphere and the soil as related to the nutrition of agricultural plants. New York: Orange Judd and Company.

Summary

Sends some books.

Letter details

Letter no.
DCP-LETT-13076F
From
Joseph Henry Gilbert
To
Charles Robert Darwin
Source of text
Rothamsted Research (GIL13)
Physical description
C

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Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 13076F,” accessed on 18 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-13076F.xml

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