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From Ebenezer Norman   18 May 1876

24 Ashmead Road | St. John’s | New Cross. S.E.

May 18. 1876.

Dear Sir

I send by this Post, registered, another parcel of your M.SS., up to & including page 300, with copy.1

I beg to draw your attention to

Tables 44. (p 206 yours, 250 mine)

and 74 (300 " 361 ") in which there appear to be errors in adding up the heights of the self-fertilised plants.2

I am, | Your obedient Servant | E. Norman

Chas. Darwin Esqre. F.R.S &c | Down.

P.S. | I calculate 6 of my pages = 1000 words.

In Table 12. (77 & 78 my page by yours) there is an error in the adding up of the Crossed Plants; I have consequently left the total in pencil, and also left blanks in subsequent places where numbers are quoted depending on the total.

1
Norman was making a copy of CD’s manuscript of Cross and self fertilisation.
2
Tables 44 and 74 in Cross and self fertilisation, pp. 130 and 186, show the height achieved by plants of the same type, when some were self-fertilised and others crossed; the sum of the heights was given in order to calculate average heights.

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-10509,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-10509