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To J. T. Moggridge   13 October [1865]

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Discusses self-fertilisation in bee and spider orchids. Asks JTM to conduct experiment.

Comments on plates [see J. T. Moggridge’s contribution to Flora of Mentone and winter flora of the Riviera, including the coast from Marseilles to Genoa London 1866, 1871. Part II dated 1865; Part I, 1866].

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  John Traherne Moggridge
Date:  13 Oct [1865]
Classmark:  DAR 146: 374
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4914

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  • … forms of Ophrys insectifera (the fly orchid), under which name Moggridge included O.   …
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