To Gaston de Saporta 10 September 1876

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Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 24.

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-10591,” in Ɛpsilon: accessed on 26 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-10591

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Hopes GdeS will publish on subjects discussed in his letter [10587]. CD had noted similar persistence of variation in fossil shells.

Calls his attention to Nägeli’s work on Hieracium.

Expresses skepticism about O. Heer’s view that dicotyledonous plants developed suddenly. Believes they must have developed slowly in some part of the globe completely isolated from other regions.

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Record number: DCP-LETT-10591
From: Darwin, C. R.
To: Saporta, L. C. J. G. de
Date: 10 Sept 1876
Sent from: Down
Source of text: Archives Gaston de Saporta (private collection)
Physical description: 4pp

To Gaston de Saporta 10 September 1876

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