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To W. D. Crick   24 June [1879]

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

June 24th

Dear Sir

I do not think that there wd be any particular interest in the abnormality in question; but I have looked at several flowers & can see no trace of it. Can you have mistaken the upwardly folded connection between the 2 anther cells for a rudimentary anther-cell? I have somewhere alluded to this fold in comparing the structure of Ophrys & Orchis.—1

Dear Sir | yours faithfully | Ch. Darwin

Postmark: JU 24 79

1
Crick’s letter, to which this letter is a response, has not been found. For CD’s description of the crest or fold of membrane between the anther cells in Orchis and the smooth surface between the two anthers in Ophrys, see Orchids, pp. 10, 18 (fig. D), 45–6.

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-12117,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-12117