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LevelFile
Finding Number (Click this to view full catalogue structure)OJL/1/117
TitleSir Horace Darwin
Extent2 items
Date1925
DescriptionCorrespondence with Sir Horace Darwin [1851-1928, civil engineer and manufacturer of scientific instruments].

/1 Letter from Horace Darwin to Oliver Lodge, written from The Orchard, Huntingdon Road, Cambridge, dated 14 October 1925. Darwin describes a failed experiment made by his father, involving pollination of a wind fertilized tree.

/2 Copy of letter from Oliver Lodge to Horace Darwin, dated 20 October 1925. Lodge discusses the role of electrical charge in the fertilisation of plants.
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