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DCP-LETT-13594

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Grant Blairfindie (Grant) Allen
Date:
2 Jan 1882
Source of text:
Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
Summary:

Thanks GA for his article ["The daisy’s pedigree", Cornhill Mag. 44 (1881): 168–81].

The evolutionary argument that petals are transformed stamens is "striking and apparently valid". Doubts petals are naturally yellow.

Wallace’s "generalization about much modified parts being splendidly coloured" is also dubious except as both are caused by sexual selection.

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Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13691

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry Walter Bates
Date:
17 Feb 1882
Source of text:
Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
Summary:

Asks HWB to sign and return F.R.S. certificate for Raphael Meldola; if he objects to signing, CD will not mention the fact. [Meldola elected F.R.S., June 1886.]

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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