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To Federico Delpino 14 October 1869
Summary
Cautions FD about fluid in labellum of Coryanthes.
T. H. Farrer is enthusiastic about FD’s papers.
Believes humming-birds fertilise many American flowers.
Mentions his reply to FD’s criticisms ["Pangenesis: Mr Darwin’s reply to Professor Delpino", Sci. Opin. 2 (1869): 426; Collected papers 2: 158–60].
Suggests that FD study fertilisation of Gramineae.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Federico Delpino |
| Date: | 14 Oct 1869 |
| Classmark: | DAR 143: 379 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6938 |
From Federico Delpino 9 October 1869
Summary
Acknowledges receipt of CD’s Primula paper [J. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Bot.) 10 (1869): 437–54].
Nectar-sucking birds fertilise tropical flowers.
Writing a "Dualistic apologia for Pangenesis" [see translation in Sci. Opin. 2 (1869): 365–7, 391–3, 407–8].
Homology of the orchid rostellum.
| Author: | Federico Delpino |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 9 Oct 1869 |
| Classmark: | DAR 162: 144 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6928 |
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| letter | (2) |
Author
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Delpino, Federico | (1) |
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| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Delpino, Federico | (1) |
