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To Richard Kippist   15 February 1877

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

Feb. 15th. 77

My dear Sir

Will you be so kind as to send me the 3 or 4 books as below per Rail.—

Yours sincerely | Ch. Darwin

(1) Bot: Zeitung for 1857.
(2) Bull: Bot. Soc. de France Vol. VII. p. 465. M. Michalet
(3) — do do. do Vol. X M. Duval-Jouve1

In the Nat. Hist. Review No VIII Oct. 1862 p. 419 I find following reference

“Baillon H., sur l’emission des tube polliniques des Helianthemum” p. 56

Now I have no idea whether this is separate book, or article in some of his other books.—2 Can you aid me & send the article if you have it?

Forgive me for being so troublesome.

yours sincerely | Ch. Darwin

1
CD cited a paper on cleistogamic flowers by Daniel Müller from Botanische Zeitung (D. Müller 1857) in Forms of flowers , p. 314. He also cited articles by Louis Eugène Michalet (Michalet 1860) and Joseph Duval-Jouve (Duval-Jouve 1863) from the Bulletin de la Société botanique de France (Forms of flowers, pp. 321, 325, and pp. 313, 333–4). Kippist was librarian of the Linnean Society.
2
The article by Ernest Henri Baillon on Helianthemum (the genus of frostweed and rock rose) appeared in the journal Adansonia (Baillon 1861; see Forms of flowers, p. 337 n.).

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