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From Alfred Grugeon   14 January [1877]

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Believes CD is in error in his notice on the scarcity of holly berries [Collected papers 2: 189–90] in asserting that holly is not a hermaphrodite.

Author:  Alfred Grugeon
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  14 Jan [1877]
Classmark:  DAR 165: 237
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10788

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  • … British Isles. London: Lovell Reeve. Lindley, John. 1835. A synopsis of the British flora, …
  • … Orme, Brown, Green, and Longman. Lindley, John. 1838. Flora medica; a botanical account of …
  • … 7; a clipping of it is in DAR 132: 6. John Lindley , in A synopsis of the British flora ( …

From G. H. K. Thwaites   28 August 1877

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Thanks for Forms of flowers.

Insects that infest and are parasitic upon the fig fruit.

Author:  George Henry Kendrick Thwaites
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  28 Aug 1877
Classmark:  DAR 178: 126
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11119

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  • … Conn. : Archon Books, Shoe String Press. Lindley, John. 1848. An introduction to botany . …
  • … 40–3). Bletting was a term coined by John Lindley to refer to the process by which certain …

To T. H. Farrer   31 July [1877]

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THF is seeking advice regarding the selection of an entomologist to carry out some duties [apparently pest destruction].

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
Date:  31 July [1877]
Classmark:  V&A / Wedgwood Collection (MS W/M 546)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11083

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  • … W. T. Thiselton-Dyer, 22 July [1877] . John Lindley . The Darwins stayed at Farrer’s home, …