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Darwin Correspondence Project

To L. A. Errera   18 September 1877

Down, | Beckenham, Kent. | Railway Station | Orpington. S.E.R.

Sep 18. 1877

Dear Sir,

I shall be happy to look at your M.S., in order to see whether you have rightly understood my meaning.1 But will you be so good as to mark the passages, (if the paper is long), with respect to which you wish for my opinion, as I am at present much engaged. When your paper is published I shall be very glad to read the whole.2

I may mention that I have lately published a volume “The Different Forms of Flowers” in which I give the result of some experiments on P. elatior.3

Dear Sir | Yours faithfully | Ch. Darwin

Footnotes

The paper, ‘Sur la structure et les modes de fécondation des fleurs et en particulier sur l’hétérostylie du Primula elatior’ (On the structure and methods of fertilisation of flowers and in particular on the heterostyly of Primula elatior; Errera and Gevaert 1878), was published in 1878. CD’s copy is in the Darwin Pamphlet Collection–CUL.
See Forms of flowers, pp. 32–4 and passim.

Bibliography

Forms of flowers: The different forms of flowers on plants of the same species. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1877.

Summary

Agrees to look over MS.

Letter details

Letter no.
DCP-LETT-11144
From
Charles Robert Darwin
To
Léo Abram Errera
Sent from
Down
Source of text
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.521)
Physical description
LS 2pp

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Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 11144,” accessed on 29 March 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-11144.xml

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