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DCP-LETT-1478
Summary
Cancelled: draft of 1496.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [Apr 1852] |
Classmark: | DAR 206: 40 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1478 |
To J. D. Hooker [April 1852]
Summary
Questions on variation in nature: taxa varying in one region but not another. Variation between vs within species. Rarity of variation in important organs within a species. G. R. Waterhouse’s views on variation in highly developed organs, which CD relates to variation in rudimentary organs.
Asks for cases of obligate self-fertilising plants.
[CD annotation proposes using the Steudel Nomenclator botanicus (1821–4) to determine if variable species occur in genera with many species.]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [Apr 1852] |
Classmark: | DAR 107: 66–7 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1496 |
Correspondent
Darwin, C. R. | |
Hooker, J. D. | (2) |