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To W. B. Clarke   25 October [1861]

Summary

Thanks WBC for his account of glacial action in Australia. A mundane cooler period would throw a flood of light on geographical distribution. Has sketched a large MS on subject but does not know whether he will live to publish it.

Questions WBC on striated granite boulders.

Asks him to make a botanical experiment on insect fertilisation.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  William Branwhite Clarke
Date:  25 Oct [1861]
Classmark:  Mitchell Library, Sydney (MLMSS 139/36X, pp. 263–72)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-3298
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