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To J. D. Hooker   31 [August 1860]

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Observations on Drosera: plants can distinguish minute quantities of nitrogenous substances.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:  31 [Aug 1860]
Classmark:  DAR 115: 71
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-2886

To J. D. Hooker   7 August [1860]

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Owen wants to be civil, and sneer behind CD’s back.

Those, like Rudolph Wagner, who want to go halfway on theory, are "booked to go further".

Anatomy of orchids.

Huxley says K. E. von Baer goes "a great way with me".

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:  7 Aug [1860]
Classmark:  DAR 115: 72
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-2892
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