To T. H. Farrer 13 October [1872]
Summary
THF’s article in Nature ["The fertilisation of a few papilionaceous flowers", 6 (1872): 478–80, 498–501] is extremely good.
Suspects he now has answer to why common peas and sweetpeas hardly ever intercross, a point which half drove CD mad for years.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer |
| Date: | 13 Oct [1872] |
| Classmark: | Linnean Society of London (LS Ms 299/18) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8557 |
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- … Nature ["The fertilisation of a few papilionaceous flowers", 6 (1872): 478–80, 498–501] is …
- … On the fertilisation of a few common papilionaceous flowers. Nature , 10 October 1872, pp. …
- … the fertilisation of a few common papilionaceous flowers’, which appeared in Nature , 10 …
From T. H. Farrer 17 October 1872
Summary
Suggests possible experiments with Pisum and Lathyrus.
Has read the article CD spoke of; the doctrine of inherited mental and corporeal qualities is most fertile.
| Author: | Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 17 Oct 1872 |
| Classmark: | DAR 164: 73 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8563 |
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- … On the fertilisation of a few common papilionaceous flowers. Nature , 10 October 1872, pp. …
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