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To Edward Frankland   [before 6 June 1876]

Summary

Requests chemical analysis of sample of both natural and burnt soil.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Edward Frankland
Date:  [before 6 June 1876]
Classmark:  The John Rylands Library, The University of Manchester
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10533A

From Edward Frankland   [before 6 June 1876]

Summary

Sends analysis of burnt and unburnt samples.

Author:  Edward Frankland
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [before 6 June 1876]
Classmark:  The John Rylands Library, The University of Manchester
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10533F

From W. T. Thiselton-Dyer   6 June 1876

Summary

References to figures of Coryanthes.

Author:  William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  6 June 1876
Classmark:  DAR 178: 97
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10534

To Edward Frankland   6 June [1876]

Summary

Gratitude for the invaluable assistance. Is disappointed that natural soil is richer than burnt. Problem of securing sufficient chemically pure soil to test growth of plants.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Edward Frankland
Date:  6 June [1876]
Classmark:  The John Rylands Library, The University of Manchester
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10534A
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Charles Thomas Whitley

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Born in Liverpool in 1808, Charles Thomas Whitley, like Darwin, attended Shrewsbury School and then Cambridge University where they were clearly very close, exchanging letters during the summer holidays. Whitley was a mathematician, a subject that held…

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  • … of a martinet and every inch a ‘don’” ([Anon.] 1895 p. 606) – and indeed as he wrote to Darwin …