From Thomas Rivers 6 January [1865]
Summary
Thanks CD for his paper on Lythrum [Collected papers 2: 106–31].
Astonished by CD’s powers of observation and perseverance.
His elms raised from three varieties of weeping elms are doing well.
| Author: | Thomas Rivers |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 6 Jan [1865] |
| Classmark: | DAR 176: 163 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4381 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … 12, Appendix III). Rivers was noted for developing new varieties of fruit by crossing (see Journal of Horticulture n.s. 33 (1877): 342–4). CD had first written to Rivers in December 1862, requesting information on whether slight variations appeared suddenly from buds, much like ‘sports’ (see Correspondence vol. 10, …
