To T. H. Farrer 31 July [1877]
Summary
THF is seeking advice regarding the selection of an entomologist to carry out some duties [apparently pest destruction].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer |
| Date: | 31 July [1877] |
| Classmark: | V&A / Wedgwood Collection (MS W/M 546) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11083 |
From Alphonse de Candolle 31 July 1877
Summary
Thanks for Forms of flowers.
In his Monographiae phanerogamarum [vol. 1 (1878)] he discusses transitional forms of dioecism in three genera of Smilax.
Criticises CD’s use of the words "purpose" and "end", but acknowledges that in English they can mean both cause and effect.
| Author: | Alphonse de Candolle |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 31 July 1877 |
| Classmark: | DAR 161: 21 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11084 |
Document type
| letter | (2) |
Author
| Candolle, Alphonse de | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
Addressee
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Farrer, T. H. | (1) |
Correspondent
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Candolle, Alphonse de | (1) |
| Farrer, T. H. | (1) |
