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From:

Alphonse de Candolle

To:

Charles Robert Darwin

Date:

31 July 1877

Source of text:

DAR 161: 21

Summary:

Thanks for Forms of flowers.

In his Monographiae phanerogamarum [vol. 1 (1878)] he discusses transitional forms of dioecism in three genera of Smilax.

Criticises CD’s use of the words "purpose" and "end", but acknowledges that in English they can mean both cause and effect.

Contributor:

Darwin Correspondence Project

From:

Charles Robert Darwin

To:

Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer

Date:

31 July [1877]

Source of text:

V&A / Wedgwood Collection (MS W/M 546)

Summary:

THF is seeking advice regarding the selection of an entomologist to carry out some duties [apparently pest destruction].

Contributor:

Darwin Correspondence Project