From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Daniel Oliver
Date:
30 Nov [1861]
Source of text:
DAR 261.10: 2 (EH 88205986)
Summary:
Requests that DO examine enclosed microscope slides of Acropera ovules, to confirm CD’s opinion that females are non-functional.
Can DO comment on disagreement between Robert Brown and John Lindley over the number of Acropera carpels?
O. Heer’s Atlantis theory vs CD’s hypothesis of a migration north during warm periods.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project