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To A. S. Wilson   8 January 1880

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Glad ASW has solved puzzle of outer seeds.

Quite agrees about great improbability of sudden transformations.

Asks for copy of report from Gardeners’ Chronicle [see 12404].

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Alexander Stephen Wilson
Date:  8 Jan 1880
Classmark:  DAR 148: 369
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12411

To A. S. Wilson   13 February 1880

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Thanks for articles by ASW in Gardeners’ Chronicle [see 12404]. Agrees with him.

Asks about growth of rootlets from knobs caused by fungus on roots of Cruciferae.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Alexander Stephen Wilson
Date:  13 Feb 1880
Classmark:  DAR 148: 370
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12478

To A. S. Wilson   20 February 1880

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Speculates on origin of habit [of insects?] of laying eggs on plants of certain families.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Alexander Stephen Wilson
Date:  20 Feb 1880
Classmark:  DAR 148: 371
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12495
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