From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Léo Abram Errera
Date:
18 Sept 1877
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.521)
Summary:
Agrees to look over MS.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Agrees to look over MS.
Young Belgian students [L. A. Errera and Gustave Gevaert] ask CD to read their paper, which summarises Cross and self-fertilisation. They criticise CD’s views on the comparative effects of crossing flowers on the same stem and fertilisation of a flower by its own pollen ["Sur la structure et les modes de fécondation des fleurs", Bull. Soc. Bot. Belg. 17 (1878): 38–181, 182–248].
Sending MS.
Used Anton Kerner’s nomenclature for designating crosses.
Thanks CD for Forms of flowers.