Letter 6909
Henslow, George to Darwin, C. R.
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Thanks for a paper on phyllotaxy.
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Sep 25 /69
Dear M
Many thanks for the pamphlet sent, & duly received—on additions to fertility of Orchids; & which has interested me much. I must apologize for not having returned a paper on Phyllotaxis. I cannot understand part of it at all; viz: about the ``rectangle'' & the letters to the fig I found are wrong in some places. Though the rest of the paper is interesting.
I beg to send you a copy of my Expression on same subject.
Hoping you are in good health | believe me | yrs very truly
| Geo Henslow
Ch Darwin Esq
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The reference is to `Fertilization of orchids'. - +
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Henslow refers to C. de Candolle 1865. See C. de Candolle 1865, p. 208, for the `rectangle' and p. 205 for the figure. CD's annotated copy, a separately paginated offprint, is in the Darwin Pamphlet Collection--CUL. For CD's own interest in phyllotaxy, see Correspondence vol. 11. - +
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Henslow had presented a paper on phyllotaxy at the Linnean Society in April 1868 (Henslow 1868). See also Correspondence vol. 16, letter from George Henslow, 13 April 1868.