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DCP-LETT-11166

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Léo Abram Errera
Date:
4 Oct 1877
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.523)
Summary:

Approves terms used in LAE’s manuscript. Discusses relative advantages of self-fertilisation and cross-fertilisation.

Thanks LAE for pointing out erratum [in Cross and self-fertilisation].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11177

From:
Léo Abram Errera
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Oct 1877
Source of text:
DAR 163: 28
Summary:

CD has made clear that in Cross and self-fertilisation he had not intended to suggest that autogamie (fertilisation of a flower by its own pollen) is superior to gitonogamie (fertilisation of a flower by one on the same plant).

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11184

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Carl Theodor Ernst von Siebold
Date:
15 Oct 1877
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.525)
Summary:

Thanks CTEvS for photographs of human abnormality;

regrets death of Rudolf von Willemoes-Suhm.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11199

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Richard Irwin Lynch
Date:
23 Oct [1877]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

Asks for some seeds of coniferous plants. Wants to examine their first leaves.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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