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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Scott
Date:
1 July 1876
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

CD has read the two reports on culture of poppies with interest and has planted seeds.

Suggests an experiment for evidence on whether plants, thought merely varieties, are like species and fail to intercross, despite insect pollination.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Scott
Date:
15 Dec 1876
Source of text:
Transactions of the Hawick Archæological Society (1908): 70
Summary:

CD is eager for further information about Lagerstroemia, which is sterile with its own pollen. Does the collection of dried plants reveal more than one form? Plans to republish papers on dimorphism.

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Darwin Correspondence Project