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From Francis Darwin   [before 17 July 1878]

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More sleepers from green-house.

Julius Sachs’s view of climbing plants: he distinguishes between nutation to find a support and growth after support is found.

Author:  Francis Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [before 17 July 1878]
Classmark:  DAR 209.1: 155; DAR 274.1: 50, 52
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11613

From R. A. Blair   17 July 1878

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Explains difficulties in supplying wings of geese. Describes injury of old gander that sired the abnormal geese.

Author:  Reuben Almond Blair
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  17 July 1878
Classmark:  American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.542)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11614