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DCP-LETT-5118

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Henslow
Date:
12 June [1866]
Source of text:
Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge (GEN/D/DARWIN (C)/9)
Summary:

Returns proofs of GH’s paper ["On hybridization among plants", Pop. Sci. Rev. 5 (1866): 304–13] with his criticisms. Prefers that GH not state that CD has read the proofs.

Does C. V. Naudin really say that ovules (not seed) of hybrid Luffa and Cucumis are imperfect?

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5119

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Carl Wilhelm von Nägeli
Date:
12 June [1866]
Source of text:
DAR 147: 181
Summary:

Comments on CWvN’s Die Entstehung und Begriff [der Naturhistorischen Art (1864)].

Discussion of beauty of flowers in new edition of Origin not based on CWvN’s article.

Comments on CWvN’s argument that flower structures are not due to natural selection.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel8041

From:
John Wrottesley
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[12 June 1866]
Source of text:
RS:HS 18.308
Summary:

Review enclosed document, then send it to Warren de La Rue, James Glaisher, and back to JW, who will forward it to B.A.A.S.

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John Herschel Project
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