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To Gardeners’ Chronicle 21 May [1855]
Summary
Reports on his experiments on action of sea-water on seeds and the bearing of his investigations on the theory of centres of creation and Edward Forbes’s theory of continental extensions to account for distribution of organic forms. CD’s experiments confirm germination powers were retained after 42 days’ immersion by seven out of eight kinds of seeds.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Gardeners’ Chronicle |
| Date: | 21 May [1855] |
| Classmark: | Gardeners’ Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette, no. 21, 26 May 1855, pp. 356–7 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1684 |
To Gardeners’ Chronicle [before 26 May 1855]
Summary
Will be obliged if any reader can provide eggs of lizard Lacerta agilis. Wants to ascertain whether they float in sea-water. Offers reward of a few shillings to boys for collecting.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Gardeners’ Chronicle |
| Date: | [before 26 May 1855] |
| Classmark: | Gardeners’ Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette, no. 21, 26 May 1855, p. 360 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1686A |
Document type
| letter | (2) |
Author
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
Correspondent
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Gardeners’ Chronicle | (2) |
