From:
Federico Delpino
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Oct 1869
Source of text:
DAR 162: 144
Summary:
Acknowledges receipt of CD’s Primula paper [J. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Bot.) 10 (1869): 437–54].
Nectar-sucking birds fertilise tropical flowers.
Writing a "Dualistic apologia for Pangenesis" [see translation in Sci. Opin. 2 (1869): 365–7, 391–3, 407–8].
Homology of the orchid rostellum.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project