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To Henry Groves   27 March 1882

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Thanks HG for kind offer. CD is not well enough to examine the Utricularia, but will try to look at the Nitella.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Henry Groves
Date:  27 Mar 1882
Classmark:  The British Library (Add MS 46917: 65)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-13745

To Henry Groves   3 April 1882

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Thanks HG for specimen of Mitella.

CD has tried effects of carbonate of ammonia on chlorophyll grains, but his observations are hardly trustworthy. He finds stooping over the microscope affects his heart.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Henry Groves
Date:  3 Apr 1882
Classmark:  The British Library (Add MS 46917: 66)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-13754

From Henry Groves   1 April 1882

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Has forwarded some plants of Nitella opaca. Has observed their struggle for existence for several years in the gravel-pit pools at Mitcham.

Author:  Henry Groves
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  1 Apr 1882
Classmark:  DAR 165: 236
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-13751
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