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to Q,\ . Chronicle on your Peach case .' — I must write 

 no more.— I Jive in hopes some day to be able to work 

 a very little more, but it will be long before I can.— 

 Sincere thanks for your very kind letter. 



Yours very sincerely 



C. DABWI^f 



I forwarded letter to Bates. Pray use me as often 

 as you like. — 



6. 



Written hyMrs. Darwin, signed by Charles Darwin. 



Down. 

 Bjbomlet. 



Kent. S.E. 

 My deab Me Tkimen May 13. 1864 



I received your letter of Mar 14, some time ago 

 and was fearful that the Oxcdis would never arrive, but 

 yesterday to my joy they came safe and alive and are 

 now planted.^ Please give my sincere thanks to 

 Mr Mac Gibbon and accept them yourself. The plants 

 will be invaluable. My only fear is that each kind has 

 been propagated by offsets from a single stock and if so 

 they will all belong to the same form. 



I am sorry for my mistake about the Dlsa. I have 

 sent an erratum to Idnn. Journ.^ 



Thanks for the additional facts about Bisa, but I am 

 sure I do not know what I shall ever do with all 

 my wealth of new facts. 



> See p. 224 n. 1. 



^ See the preceding letter (5) on p. 226. 



' This was an error in Darwin's description of the position 

 of the viscid discs of the pollinia in relation to the passages leading 

 to the nectary ; but it was partly due to the point of view from 

 which Mr. Trimen's flg. A was taken. The position was ofimport- 

 ance in relation to the only passages of access to the nectary 

 where a proboscis could be pushed. 



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