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Darwin Correspondence Project

To the editor of Annals and Magazine of Natural History   22 September [1868]1

Down Bromley Kent

Sept 22d

Dear Sir

In case you print Mr Farrer’s paper I send a short & interesting addition to be tacked on to the end.—2

Dear Sir | Yours faithfully | Ch. Darwin

Footnotes

The year is established by the relationship between this letter and the letter from T. H. Farrer, 20 September 1868. In 1868 the editors of the journal were Charles Cardale Babington, John Edward Gray, William Sweetland Dallas, and William Francis.
CD refers to Thomas Henry Farrer and to Farrer 1868. The enclosure has not been found; however, see the letter from T. H. Farrer, 20 September 1868.

Bibliography

Farrer, Thomas Henry. 1868. On the manner of fertilization of the scarlet runner and blue lobelia. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 4th ser. 2: 255–63.

Summary

Sends addition to T. H. Farrer’s [Lobelia] paper [Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 4th ser. 2 (1868): 255–63].

Letter details

Letter no.
DCP-LETT-6384
From
Charles Robert Darwin
To
Annals and Magazine of Natural History
Sent from
Down
Source of text
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.36)
Physical description
ALS 1p

Please cite as

Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 6384,” accessed on 20 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-6384.xml

Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 16

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