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To M. J. Berkeley 29 February [1856]
Summary
Preparing paper on seed-soaking for Linnean Society ["Action of sea-water on seeds", Collected papers 1: 264–73]. Wants to use MJB’s results. Lost ardour when he found seeds would not float.
Has grown MJB’s purest pea seeds and got a few variants. Gärtner’s experiments suggest direct action of pollen, but CD thinks it is "mere variation".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Miles Joseph Berkeley |
| Date: | 29 Feb [1856] |
| Classmark: | Shropshire Archives (SA 6001/134/45) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1834 |
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- … J. D. Hooker, 13 April [1855] ). Berkeley had reported his results of experiments on immersing seeds in sea-water in Gardeners’ Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette , 1 September 1855, p. 278. CD’s paper summarising his results and those of Berkeley was read at the Linnean Society of London on 6 May 1856. The paper was entitled ‘On the action of sea-water on the germination of seeds’ ( Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society (Botany) 1 (1857): …
