To H. G. H. Norman [after 30 November 1866]1
[thanking his correspondent for remembering to send him a woodcock’s leg and informing him that ‘from a ball of earth attached to the leg of a Red Partridge no less than 82 plants germinated’]2
Footnotes
Bibliography
Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.
Summary
Thanks his correspondent for remembering to send him a woodcock’s leg and informing him that "from a ball of earth attached to the leg of a Red Partridge no less than 82 plants germinated". [See 5287.]
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-5287A
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Herbert George Henry Norman
- Source of text
- Christie’s (dealers) (20 June 1990)
- Physical description
- inc
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 5287A,” accessed on 19 March 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-5287A.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 14