From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
10 Aug [1855]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 144
Summary:
Morning with H. C. Watson; discussed problems of inferences from buried seeds.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Morning with H. C. Watson; discussed problems of inferences from buried seeds.
When JDH goes to Germany, will he ask seed men if their marvellous true breeding lines are the result of selection.
Asks JSH to identify an umbellifer.
Describes his efforts to compare number of seeds of wild and cultivated plants.
Asks that more wild celery be collected and seeds counted. Seeks to verify whether "most typical form produces most seed" and whether cultivation lessens fertility.
On geographical distribution of plants. Plant systematics and natural classification.