To Friedrich Hildebrand 10 August [1871]
Summary
Mentions experiments on Lythrum.
Thanks for list of seeds.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Friedrich Hermann Gustav (Friedrich) Hildebrand |
| Date: | 10 Aug [1871] |
| Classmark: | Klaus Groove (private collection); sold by Venator and Hanstein, Cologne (dealers), 16 March 2018 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7902 |
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