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From W. J. L. Wharton   14 August 1878

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Gives results of recently completed survey of islands in the Seychelle group mentioned in Coral reefs, 2d ed., pp. 243–4.

Author:  William James Lloyd Wharton
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  14 Aug 1878
Classmark:  DAR 69: A76–7
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11657

To Francis Darwin   14 [August 1878]

Summary

Instructs FD to plant some Oxalis seeds.

Wishes to trace the movement of an old cotyledon. Asks him to examine and compare the pulvinus of a species which moves its cotyledon greatly with one of a species that moves it only moderately.

Are the tendrils ready for heliotropic experiment yet?

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Francis Darwin
Date:  14 [Aug 1878]
Classmark:  DAR 211: 43
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11658