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To G. H. Darwin   8 January [1876]

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Asks GHD to calculate average or mean heights of crossed and self-fertilised plant species.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  George Howard Darwin
Date:  8 Jan [1876]
Classmark:  DAR 210.1: 50
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10348

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  • letter by George in preparation for his reply ( letter from G. H. Darwin, [after 8 January 1876] ). CD started work on the manuscript of Cross

To G. H. Darwin   14 [July 1878]

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Writes to say that the point on which he thought GHD’s drawings were mistaken proves to be an error in his own observation.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  George Howard Darwin
Date:  14 [July 1878]
Classmark:  DAR 210.1: 72
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11606

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  • cross-fertilisation is described more fully by CD in his letter to Francis Darwin, 14 July [1878] ; for CD’s remarks on the orchid genus Catasetum (subtribe Catasetinae), see Orchids 2d ed. , pp. 178–208. CD had described what he thought were two stigmas at the summit of the pistil in his letter to George
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