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From E. W. Black   13 August 1877

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Encloses specimens of milk-weed with trapped insects. Indian hemp catches insects in the same way but with less success.

Author:  Evans Willson Black
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  13 Aug 1877
Classmark:  DAR 160: 190
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11104

From E. W. Black   20 November 1877

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Gives exceptions to maize being monoecious, as CD claims in Cross and self-fertilisation; reversion may be cause of hermaphrodite flowers observed.

Sends paper on potatoes and asks CD to republish.

Author:  Evans Willson Black
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  20 Nov 1877
Classmark:  DAR 160: 191
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11241
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