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From Charles William Nunn   23 September 1868

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Sends an ear of wheat that has an oat kernel growing on it.

Author:  Charles W Nunn
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  23 Sept 1868
Classmark:  DAR 172: 79
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-6387

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  • 1864 , Correspondence vol.  14, letter from G.  S. Gibson, 7 July 1866 , and Correspondence vol.  15, letter from Thomas Rivers, 26 April 1867 . In his letter to Nunn (see n.  1, above) CD had evidently written that the specimen must be soaked in order to determine that there had not been an accidental insertion of the oat florets (see letter to J.  D.  Hooker, …
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