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From J. D. Hooker   [26–31 August 1862]

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On microscopes.

Cannot remember any plants but Melastoma with different coloured polliniferous anthers.

Author:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [26–31 Aug 1862]
Classmark:  DAR 101: 50–1
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-3697

From A. C. Ramsay   26 August 1862

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Sends his paper [on glacial lakes, see 3450]. Falconer attacked it. Falconer thinks Himalayas confound the theory, but Hooker writes that it explains the absence of lakes there.

Author:  Andrew Crombie Ramsay
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  26 Aug 1862
Classmark:  DAR 176: 9
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-3701

To Camilla Ludwig   26 August [1862]

Summary

Family news; mostly an account of ill health.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Camilla Frederike Antonie (Camilla) Ludwig; Camilla Frederike Antonie (Camilla) Pattrick
Date:  26 Aug [1862]
Classmark:  American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-3700