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To George Bentham   1 December [1857]

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Thanks GB for his help on naturalised plants; comments on spreading of plants.

Wants to quote GB on the names of species and varieties of Silene on which C. F. von Gärtner experimented.

Thinks GB will be disappointed in his book [Natural selection]. "It will be grievously too hypothetical."

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  George Bentham
Date:  1 Dec [1857]
Classmark:  Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Bentham Correspondence, Vol. 3, Daintree–Dyer, 1830–1884, GEB/1/3: ff. 682–3)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-2177

From James Buckman   [1 December 1857]

Summary

Discusses the relative growth of native and foreign weeds.

Author:  James Buckman
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [1 Dec 1857]
Classmark:  Gardeners’ Chronicle, 2 January 1858, p. 11
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-2177F