Letter 11660
Darwin, C. R. to Candolle, Alphonse de
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CD cannot say he cares greatly about his election to the Institut but he does care for the sympathy of his friends.
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Will look to Smilax when he returns to Down.
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Regrets the insecurity of the identification of fossil leaves.
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He has heard that De Bary has cultivated Utricularia with and without aquatic animals and that the plants that have been fed flourished "in a stupendous manner".