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  • – Land Mollusca drive me mad, & I cannot anyhow get their eggs to experimentise on their power of floating & resistance to injurious action of salt-water.

    Archive 2009-03-01 AYDIN 2009

  • –Land Mollusca drive me mad, & I cannot anyhow get their eggs to experimentise on their power of floating & resistance to injurious action of salt-water.

    How the snails drove poor Darwin crazy AYDIN 2009

  • I think you will have to modify your belief about the difficulty of dispersal of land molluscs; I was interrupted when beginning to experimentise on the just-hatched young adhering to the feet of ground-roosting birds.

    Alfred Russel Wallace: Letters and Reminiscences, Vol. 1 James Marchant

  • I was interrupted when beginning to experimentise on the just-hatched young adhering to the feet of ground-roosting birds.

    Alfred Russel Wallace Letters and Reminiscences Marchant, James 1916

  • Papilionaceous flowers are almost dead floorers to me, and I cannot experimentise, as castration alone often produces sterility.

    More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2 Charles Darwin 1845

  • During the closing years of his life, Darwin began to experimentise on the possibility of producing galls artificially.

    More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2 Charles Darwin 1845

  • I think you will have to modify your belief about the difficulty of dispersal of land molluscs; I was interrupted when beginning to experimentise on the just hatched young adhering to the feet of ground-roosting birds.

    More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2 Charles Darwin 1845

  • Many years ago I began (but failed for want of time, strength, and health, as on infinitely many other occasions) to experimentise on plants, by injecting into their tissues some alkaloids and the poison of wasps, to see if I could make anything like galls.

    More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2 Charles Darwin 1845

  • I now suspect (and I wish I had strength to experimentise next spring) that from changed climate both species are prematurely fertilised, and therefore hardly ever cross.

    More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2 Charles Darwin 1845

  • I hope that you will experimentise on inconspicuous flowers (741/3.

    More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2 Charles Darwin 1845

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