From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Ogle
Date:
7 July [1869]
Source of text:
DAR 261.5: 3 (EH 88205901)
Summary:
Comments on WO’s paper on Salvia [Pop. Sci. Rev. 8 (1869): 261–73], which he admires.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Comments on WO’s paper on Salvia [Pop. Sci. Rev. 8 (1869): 261–73], which he admires.
Thanks him for his excellent observations [on Epipactis?]; would like WED to watch for some large insect visiting the plant.
Because readers have arrived at different answers to the problem of the rate of increase of elephants, CD offers a rule, used by his son George, for calculating the product for any number of generations.
[Letter erroneously dated June.]