From:
George Bentham
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 Sept 1866
Source of text:
DAR 160: 158
Summary:
Replies to CD’s two memoranda, GB explains: 1. That he never said thistles do not produce seeds, but rather that the infinite majority of new plants are propagated from buds
2. That book-borrowing rules of the Linnean Library are not so stringent as the Librarian makes out.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
