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To G. H. K. Thwaites   26 March 1877

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Thanks for specimens [of insects].

Wonders whether difference between male and female plays part in fertilisation of fig.

Flowers of Oxalis sensitiva, sent long ago, are trimorphic and cleistogamic.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  George Henry Kendrick Thwaites
Date:  26 Mar 1877
Classmark:  American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.508)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10913

From G. H. K. Thwaites   28 August 1877

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Thanks for Forms of flowers.

Insects that infest and are parasitic upon the fig fruit.

Author:  George Henry Kendrick Thwaites
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  28 Aug 1877
Classmark:  DAR 178: 126
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11119
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