From:
Thomas Nettleship Staley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 Feb [1874]
Source of text:
DAR 89: 195–6
Summary:
Introduction of tropical fruits in Hawaiian Islands.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Introduction of tropical fruits in Hawaiian Islands.
Has given in Descent 2: 12, an account from AG of the brushes on the sides of Monacanthus; has now learned of brush-like scales on the males of Mallotus. Asks whether the two genera are related.