From George Henslow 20 October 1876
Summary
Asks whether CD’s conclusions on cross- and self-fertilising plants agree with his own as set out in a notice in Nature [14 (1876): 543–4].
| Author: | George Henslow |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 20 Oct 1876 |
| Classmark: | DAR 166: 173 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10646 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … dwarfed by lateness of blossoming? ) of Eschscholzia californica , expanding in water, …
- … is the small-flowered willowherb. Eschscholzia californica is the California poppy. CD had …
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| letter | (1) |
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| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
Correspondent
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Henslow, George | (1) |
Date
| 1876 | (1) |
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Cross and self fertilisation
Summary
The effects of cross and self fertilisation in the vegetable kingdom, published on 10 November 1876, was the result of a decade-long project to provide evidence for Darwin’s belief that ‘‘Nature thus tells us, in the most emphatic manner, that she abhors…
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- … Darwin next focused on the California poppy ( Eschscholzia californica ). Fritz Müller, writing …
