From Daniel Oliver [after 20 July 1863]1
In connection with Hildebrand’s paper2—may be consulted also Duchartre, Sur un cas de grossissement, sans fécondation, des ovules de Cycas revoluta. Bull. Soc. Bot. ix. 531.3
The pollen of a Ceratozamia was placed upon the ovules.—
D. O.
Tuesday
Footnotes
The date is established by the relationship between this letter, the letter to Daniel Oliver, 18 July [1863], and the letter from Daniel Oliver, 20 July 1863.
Hildebrand 1863b. See letter to Daniel Oliver, 18 July [1863].
Duchartre 1862 described the enlargement of ovules under the influence of pollen, apparently without being fertilised. Similar observations were detailed in Hildebrand 1863b.
Summary
Gives a reference to a paper.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-4366
- From
- Daniel Oliver
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- unstated
- Source of text
- DAR 173: 25
- Physical description
- ALS 1p inc
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 4366,” accessed on 12 May 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-4366.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 11
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