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To [Robertson Munro?]   3 February [1865 or 1866?]

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Is glad MTM is going to experiment on Passiflora.

Is grieved to hear that John Scott has been inaccurate but cannot think he recorded, in his paper, experiments that he never made [see 4485].

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Robertson Munro
Date:  3 Feb [1865-6]
Classmark:  DAR 96: 16
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4763

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  • letter on the inaccuracy of M r John Scott; & I fear that you suspect him of recording experiments never made. This would be a detestable crime   I cannot think so ill of any human being as to believe in this without the fullest proof— May you not have been misled by the crosses
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