From:
Charles William Crocker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
31 Oct 1862
Source of text:
DAR 76 (ser. 2): 84a–d
Summary:
Difficulties in beginning experiments upon retirement.
Describes his observations on insect pollination of Antirrhinum and the effect of excluding the pollinators.
Has been observing variant forms of Plantago
and comparing local orchids with CD’s observations.
Possibility of an intermediate-styled primrose.
His experiments at Kew and J. B. Lawes’s at Harpenden on deterioration of vegetables and cereals.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
