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