From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
6 Sept [1857]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 209
Summary:
Some negative results in variety tabulation survey.
Galls on wild carrot.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Some negative results in variety tabulation survey.
Galls on wild carrot.
Representative species may complicate tabulation of varieties.
Questions for Mr Anderson about horse colouring in Norway.
Has been writing an "audacious little discussion" to show that "organic beings are not perfect, only perfect enough to struggle with their competitors".
C. F. Ledebour [Flora rossica (1842–53)] particularly useful for variety tabulation. Results generally favourable.
Additions to Down House.
Last two chapters of MS took six months to write.
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