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From Lucy Caroline Wedgwood   [April–May 1865?]

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Observations for CD on oxlips, which she finds never grow near cowslips or primroses.

Author:  Lucy Caroline Wedgwood; Lucy Caroline Harrison
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [Apr–May 1865?]
Classmark:  DAR 108: 171–2
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4370

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  • … Correspondence vol.  10, letter to K.  E.  S. , L.  C. , and M.  S. Wedgwood, 4 [August  …

From L. C. Harrison to Emma Darwin   [before 1 July 1874]

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Sends reference on Pinguicula [for CD].

Author:  Lucy Caroline Wedgwood; Lucy Caroline Harrison
Addressee:  Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:  [before 1 July 1874]
Classmark:  DAR 58.1: 138
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9525

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  • C.  Harrison, [1 July 1874] . Harrison’s father was Josiah Wedgwood III .  The quotation is from the second or small edition of English botany by James Edward Smith and James Sowerby (J. E. Smith and Sowerby [1832]–46, 1: 17). Pinguicula is the genus of butterworts; CD had been performing experiments to determine their digestive ability (see, for example, letter

From L. C. Wedgwood   [15 June 1872?]

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Worm-casts on a ridged hill.

Author:  Lucy Caroline Wedgwood; Lucy Caroline Harrison
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [15 June 1872?]
Classmark:  DAR 181: 61
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7345

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  • C.  Wedgwood to Elizabeth Darwin, [7 March 1872 or later] ). CD had first sent out enquiries concerning furrows and other forms of ridges in 1871, but most of his requests were made early in 1872 as part of his investigation into the transformation of landscape through the action of earthworms (see for example Correspondence vol.  19, letter from Francis Wedgwood, 4 January 1871 , and letter to Archibald Geikie, 27 December [1871] , and this volume, letter from W.  E.   Darwin, [1 January 1872] , and letter
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