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DCP-LETT-4577

From:
Richard Spruce
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
29 July 1864
Source of text:
DAR 157.2: 111
Summary:

Gives an extract from his notes on Marcgravia umbellata, an epiphyte that might be the plant that Bates refers to as matador.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-6690

From:
Richard Spruce
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 1 Apr 1869]
Source of text:
DAR 177: 241
Summary:

Sends CD a paper ["Ant-agency in plant structure", published in Spruce Notes of a botanist on the Amazon and Andes, ed. A. R. Wallace (1908)] on plant structures he believes are the work of insects; asks him to forward it to the Linnean Society [read 15 Apr 1869].

Writes of his support for the Origin, before which he had been much concerned by the delimitation of so-called species.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6697

From:
Richard Spruce
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 Apr 1869
Source of text:
DAR 177: 242
Summary:

Describes the floral structure and fertilisation of some melastomes;

discusses the direct agency of insects in modifying the structure of flowers.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-4372

From:
Richard Spruce
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[1876–7]
Source of text:
DAR 109: B119
Summary:

Notes on various instances of dimorphic stamens.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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