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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
11 May [1860]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 53
Summary:

Dissection of Leschenaultia convinces CD insect agency necessary for self-fertilisation in this case.

Primroses and cowslips seem universally to occur in two forms. Very curious to see which plants set seed.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[11 May – 3 Dec 1860]
Source of text:
DAR 205.5: 217 (Letters), DAR 47: 214
Summary:

CD’s divergent series explains those anomalous plants that hover between what would otherwise be two species in a genus.

Inclined to see conifers as a sub-series of dicotyledons that developed in parallel to monocotyledons, but retained cryptogamic characters.

Mentions H. C. Watson’s view of variations.

Man has destroyed more species than he has created varieties.

Variations are centrifugal because the chances are a million to one that identity of form once lost will return.

In the human race, we find no reversion "that would lead us to confound a man with his ancestors".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Peter Henry Berthon
Date:
11 May 1860
Source of text:
RI MS F1 N/5/4
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Richard Griffin
Date:
11 May 1860
Source of text:
BL add MS 28510, f.41
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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From:
A. P. White & Company
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
11 May 1860
Source of text:
MS 13071 Royal Society of Victoria Exploration Committee records, box 2077/5, La Trobe Australian Manuscripts Collection, State Library of Victoria, Melbourne
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project