From:
George Henslow
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[c. 20 Feb 1878]
Source of text:
DAR 209.4: 431
Summary:
Discusses various authors’ interpretations of the structure of the embryo of grasses.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Discusses various authors’ interpretations of the structure of the embryo of grasses.
Discusses the structure of grass embryos; states differing theories regarding which part of the seed corresponds to the cotyledon.
Reports butterfly species that apparently mimic each other and gives details of some odoriferous species.
[Letter copied in Raphael Meldola’s hand from original sent to Meldola with 11449.]
Doubtful that great heat would favour development of lower organisms.