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To L. A. Errera   18 September 1877

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

Sep 18. 1877

Dear Sir,

I shall be happy to look at your M.S., in order to see whether you have rightly understood my meaning.1 But will you be so good as to mark the passages, (if the paper is long), with respect to which you wish for my opinion, as I am at present much engaged. When your paper is published I shall be very glad to read the whole.2

I may mention that I have lately published a volume “The Different Forms of Flowers” in which I give the result of some experiments on P. elatior.3

Dear Sir | Yours faithfully | Ch. Darwin

LS

2
The paper, ‘Sur la structure et les modes de fécondation des fleurs et en particulier sur l’hétérostylie du Primula elatior’ (On the structure and methods of fertilisation of flowers and in particular on the heterostyly of Primula elatior; Errera and Gevaert 1878), was published in 1878. CD’s copy is in the Darwin Pamphlet Collection–CUL.
3
See Forms of flowers, pp. 32–4 and passim.

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