Letter 5287A
Darwin, C. R. to Norman, H. G. H.
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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.]
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[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']
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The recipient and date are established by the relationship between this letter and the letter from H. G. H. Norman, 30 November 1866. - +
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See letter from H. G. H. Norman, 30 November 1866. For the germination of seeds in a ball of earth attached to the foot of a partridge, see Correspondence vol. 12, letter to Alfred Newton, 29 March [1864] and nn. 3 and 4.