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Orchids

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Why Orchids? Darwin  wrote in his Autobiography, ‘During the summer of 1839, and, I believe, during the previous summer, I was led to attend to the cross-fertilisation of flowers by the aid of insects, from having come to the conclusion in my…

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  • … be able to make out separate sexes in Catasetum and Myanthus . In a letter to Daniel Oliver …
  • … Catasetum tridentatum is male Monacanthus viridis—female Myanthus barbatus—Hermaphrodite & you …

Origin: the lost changes for the second German edition

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Darwin sent a list of changes made uniquely to the second German edition of Origin to its translator, Heinrich Georg Bronn.  That lost list is recreated here.

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  • …  As soon as the three Orchidean forms, Monachanthus, Myanthus, and Catasetum, which had previously …
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