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To Gardeners’ Chronicle   [before 10 February 1866]

Summary

Asks botanical readers to inform him "whether in those monoecious or dioecious plants, in which the flowers are widely different, it has ever been observed that half the flower, or only a segment of it, has been of one sex and the other half or segment of the opposite sex, in the same manner as so frequently occurs with insects?"

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Gardeners’ Chronicle
Date:  [before 10 Feb 1866]
Classmark:  Gardeners’ Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette, 10 February 1866, p. 127
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-5001

To Williams & Norgate   10 February [1866]

Summary

Orders Richard Owen’s Anatomy of vertebrates [1866–8],

subscribes to Annals and Magazine of Natural History,

and orders three back numbers of Medical Times and Gazette.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Williams & Norgate
Date:  10 Feb [1866]
Classmark:  Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge (ASHCOMBE COLLECTION/V/52)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-5002

From H. B. Jones   10 February [1866]

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Summary

Sends a diet for CD’s flatulence.

Author:  Henry Bence Jones
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  10 Feb [1866]
Classmark:  DAR 168: 77
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-5003

From Frederick Ransome   10 February 1866

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Thanks CD for his kind expressions [of sympathy] and for his consideration. Encloses cheque for £5 interest.

Author:  Frederick Ransome
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  10 Feb 1866
Classmark:  DAR 99: 21
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-5153