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The Charles Darwin Collection
The Darwin Correspondence Project is publishing letters written by and to the naturalist Charles Darwin (1809–1882). Complete transcripts of letters are being made available through the Project’s website (www.darwinproject.ac.uk) after publication in the ongoing print edition of The Correspondence of Charles Darwin (Cambridge University Press 1985–). Metadata and summaries of all known letters (c. 15,000) appear in Ɛpsilon, and the full texts of available letters can also be searched, with links to the full texts.
Thanks for facts on orchids.
Friedrich Hildebrand’s new book on fertilisation of plants [Die Geschlechten-Vertheilung bei den Pflanzen (1867)].
CD correcting proofs of Variation.
FM likes Ernst Haeckel’s book [Generelle Morphologie (1866)].
Discusses the practice of exogamy; asks if any animals have an instinctive repugnance to inbreeding.
Thanks for subscription.
Reports experiments with wheat.
Sends notes on producing varieties by pruning.