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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred William Bennett
Date:
22 Sept [1874]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 84
Summary:

Thanks for sending papers by Hermann Hoffmann.

Discusses spiral cells in Drosera and Pinguicula.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
George Berthoud
Date:
22 September 1874
Source of text:
Library, Royal Botanic Gardens, Sydney
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
From:
Thomas Meehan
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 Sept 1874
Source of text:
DAR 171: 110
Summary:

Sends CD his photo

and a copy of his address at Hartford ["Change by gradual modification not the universal law", Proc. Am. Assoc. Adv. Sci. (1874) pt 2: 7–12]. Does not believe his observations are unfavourable to natural selection but feels there are other factors involved in the origin of form.

Discusses further his work on colour and sex in plants; the linking of high colour and maleness.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Dorothy Fanny Walpole; Dorothy Fanny Nevill
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 [Sept 1874]
Source of text:
DAR 172: 22
Summary:

Will send a different Utricularia species when the seedlings are better established.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project