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To J. V. Carus   20 December 1876

Down, | Beckenham, Kent. | Railway Station | Orpington. S.E.R.

Dec 20. 1876

My dear Sir,

Be so kind as to add an omitted reference to the word “Delpino” p 371 five lines from top in “Cross-Fertilisation” &c (“See also Dr Ascherson’s interesting article in Bot. Zeit. 1871 p 444 et seq on this subject.”)1

Yours sincerely | Ch. Darwin

LS(A)

1
Carus was translating Cross and self fertilisation into German; see letter from J. V. Carus, 20 November 1876. The reference to Paul Ascherson’s ‘Federico Delpino’s Eintheilung der Pflanzen nach dem Mechanismus der dichogamischen Befruchtung und Bemerkungen über die Befruchtungs-Vorgänge bei Wasserpflanzen’ (Federico Delpino’s classification of plants according to the mechanism of dichogamic fertilisation and remarks on the processes of fertilisation in water plants; Ascherson 1871) was added to Carus trans. 1877d, p. 359 n. 2. The change was later made in the second English edition (Cross and self fertilisation 2d ed., p. 372).

Manuscript Alterations and Comments

1.2 (“See … subject.”)1.3] square brackets in MS in CD’s hand

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-10730,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-10730