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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

1
The recipient and date are established by the relationship between this letter and the letter from H. G. H. Norman, 30 November 1866.
2
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.

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 24 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-5287A.xml

Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 14

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