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From:
James Torbitt
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 Jan 1876
Source of text:
DAR 178: 130
Summary:

Are plants that arise from vegetative propagation individuals or merely parts of the original parent plant?

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Torbitt
Date:
26 Jan 1876
Source of text:
DAR 148: 91
Summary:

Obliged for Belfast Journal.

Almost impossible to determine what constitutes an individual. Definition for sexually reproducing organisms does not apply to lower ones.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project