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From E. A. Floyer 22 September 1878
Summary
Sends fruit of date-palm which has not been impregnated by pollen from a male.
Has read Origin, which "puts everything straight".
Author: | Ernest Ayscoghe Floyer |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 22 Sept 1878 |
Classmark: | DAR 205.2: 231 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11702 |
From E. A. Floyer [after 22 September 1878?]
Summary
Sends an example of natural selection: survival of water-buffalo eating Indian corn submerged by flooding might depend on how long animal could keep nose under water. Encloses measurements of this behaviour.
Author: | Ernest Ayscoghe Floyer |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [after 22 Sept 1878?] |
Classmark: | DAR 194: 41 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11703 |
Document type
letter | (2) |
Addressee
Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
Correspondent
Darwin, C. R. | |
Floyer, E. A. | (2) |
Date
1878 | (2) |