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To P. H. Gosse   7 April [1864]

Summary

Discusses microscopic observation of pollen tubes.

Unable to exchange orchids because of his illness.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Philip Henry Gosse
Date:  7 Apr [1864]
Classmark:  American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.298)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4454

From Philip Henry Gosse   5 April 1864

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Asks how he can identify pollen-tubes.

Has succeeded in impregnating orchids of widely different genera with each other’s pollinia. "Is not this something new?"

Offers to exchange Catasetum for other varieties.

Author:  Philip Henry Gosse
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  5 Apr 1864
Classmark:  DAR 165: 79
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4451
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