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sent you I think may only be a bud-variation, not 

 due to grafting. 



I have heard indirectly of your splendid success 

 with nerves of Medusae. We have been at Abinger 

 Hall for a month for rest which I much required, and 

 I saw there the cut-leaved vine, which seems splendid 

 for graft hybridisation. 



Yours very sincerely, 



Ch. Dakwin. 



To C. Darwin, Esq. 



Dtmskaith : July 14, 1875. 



I was very glad to receive your letter, having been 

 previously undecided whether to write and let you 

 know how I am getting on, or to wait until I got a 

 veritable hybrid. 



In one of your letters you advised me to look up 

 the 'beet ' case, but I could nowhere find any references 

 to it. Dr. Hooker told me that although he could 

 not then remember the man's name, he remembered 

 that the experimenter did not save the seed, but dug 

 up his roots for exhibition. I forget whether it was 

 Dr. Masters, Bentham, or Mr. Dyer who told me 

 that the experiment had been performed in Ireland, 

 although they could not remember by whom. But if 

 the experimenter did not save the seed, the mere fact 

 of his sticking two roots together would have no 

 bearing on Pangenesis, and so I did not take any 

 trouble to find out who the experimenter was. 



As you have heard about the Medusae, I fear you 

 will infer that they must have diverted my attention 

 from Pangenesis ; but although it is true that they 



