From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Federico Delpino
Date:
25 June [1873]
Source of text:
Anna Barone (private collection)
Summary:
Discusses role of insects in crossing varieties of Lathyrus odoratus and other species.
Comments on Hermann Müller [Die Befruchtung der Blumen (1873)],
and Anton Kerner ["Die Schutzmittel des Pollens", Ber. Naturwiss. Med. Ver. Innsbruck, 3 (1873): 100–68].
Admires FD’s work on anemophilous plants.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project