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From Roland Trimen   16 March 1863

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RT has sent his observations on orchids to CD. Has found only one case of an insect with a pollinium adhering to it.

Author:  Roland Trimen
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  16 Mar 1863
Classmark:  DAR 70: 180, DAR 178: 184
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4046

From Roland Trimen   16, 17, and 19 July 1863

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Thanks CD for two letters and his portrait.

CD’s book [Orchids] opened up terra incognita for him.

His work on S. African butterflies continues.

Reports on a moth that punctures peach skins.

Interesting that thoughtful naturalists are forced to admit mutability of species.

Some notes on Oxalis.

Author:  Roland Trimen
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  16, 17 and 19 July 1863
Classmark:  DAR 99: 13–16d, DAR 142: 37
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4243

From Roland Trimen   10, 13, and 18 October 1863

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Comments on CD’s paper on Linum [Collected papers 2: 93–105].

Sends specimens of dimorphic and trimorphic Oxalis.

Comments on H. W. Bates’s work [Naturalist on the river Amazons].

Author:  Roland Trimen
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  10, 13 and 18 Oct 1863
Classmark:  DAR 109: B122–3
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4319
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