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FVM-80-01-05

From:
Alphonse de Candolle
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
5 January 1880
Source of text:
RB MSS M1, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne
Summary:

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Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

DCP-LETT-12847

From:
Alphonse de Candolle
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 Nov 1880
Source of text:
DAR 161: 26
Summary:

Finds CD was correct in Variation: hybrid bees tend to sting more often than pure-bred bees.

Preparing a second edition of the chapter on the origin of cultivated plants in his Géographie botanique. The work done since 1855 confirms his opinions.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13017

From:
Alphonse de Candolle
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Jan [1881]
Source of text:
DAR 161: 25
Summary:

Thanks for Movement in plants. Praises the terms CD introduces, but criticises CD’s use of the teleological word "purpose".

Outlines his efforts to study the inheritance of characters in his family. F. Galton overemphasises the inheritance of good qualities.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13239

From:
Alphonse de Candolle
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 July 1881
Source of text:
DAR 161: 27
Summary:

AdeC thinks Monographiae phanerogamarum may be of some use to CD for the most nearly correct names to adopt.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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