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To W. K. Bridgman   21 January [1869]

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Discusses fertilisation of Aucuba and Polygala.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  William Kencely Bridgman
Date:  21 Jan [1869]
Classmark:  DAR 143: 146
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-6565

From W. K. Bridgman   23 January 1869

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Is assembling apparatus of lenses and reflector to observe flower from opening to first shedding of pollen, and to determine whether fertilisation is by night- or day-feeders.

Will also examine reasons for absence of nectar in Polygala linaria.

Author:  William Kencely Bridgman
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  23 Jan 1869
Classmark:  DAR 160: 307
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-6571
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