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From:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 May 1869
Source of text:
DAR 111: A79–80
Summary:

Justifies his use of term "degraded" by comparing contrivances for cross-fertilisation in different species of Viola.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 May 1869
Source of text:
DAR 164: 52
Summary:

Thanks CD for lesson that it is wrong to call any plant which lives and thrives "degraded".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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