From E. W. Black 20 November 1877

Letter and/or further information available at https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-11241.xml.

Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 25.

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-11241,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 28 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-11241

Summary

Gives exceptions to maize being monoecious, as CD claims in Cross and self-fertilisation; reversion may be cause of hermaphrodite flowers observed.

Sends paper on potatoes and asks CD to republish.

Letter details

Record number: DCP-LETT-11241
From: Evans Willson Black
To: Charles Robert Darwin
Date: 20 Nov 1877
Sent from: Fayette Co., Pa.
Source of text: DAR 160: 191
Physical description: 3pp

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Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 25.