To A. S. Wilson 16 March [1878]1
Down
March 16.
My dear Sir
It is extremely kind of you to have sent me the fresh packet of good seeds, some of which I have just put on damp sand to germinate. I tried the former lot on damp sand and damp earth, (and the remainder are now in water!) and all became a sheet of mould, so that I was in despair of even one germinating. Your note shows me that the case is even more curious than I before understood.2 I am, however, at present overwhelmed with the number of experiments in hand. But Ægilops must not be neglected.
Yours much obliged | Ch. Darwin
Footnotes
Summary
Thanks for second lot of Aegilops seed.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-11427
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Alexander Stephen Wilson
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- DAR 148: 363
- Physical description
- C 1p
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 11427,” accessed on 24 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-11427.xml