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From:
Alfred William Bennett
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 Apr 1869
Source of text:
DAR 160: 137
Summary:

Sends paper on mechanisms of cross-fertilisation in flowers ["Note on Parnassia palustris", J. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Bot.) 11 (1871): 24–31].

Studying how fertilisation takes place without the aid of insects in winter varieties.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Alfred William Bennett
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 May 1869
Source of text:
DAR 76: B176–7
Summary:

Sends CD some notes [missing] on the mode of fertilisation of winter-flowering plants, and outlines his conclusions regarding the different types of winter-flowerers and the means by which they are fertilised.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Alfred William Bennett
To:
Nature
Date:
8 Nov 1869
Source of text:
Nature 1 (1869): 58
Summary:

Discusses cross-fertilisation in Vinca.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred William Bennett
Date:
9 Nov [1869]
Source of text:
Provenance unknown: formerly Sang Collection of Autographs and Manuscripts, Illinois Institute of Technology
Summary:

Returns proofs of a notice which he finds "highly honourable" to himself.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project