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 |
Matches: 3 hits
- … Clark Ross. London: Lovell Reeve. Lindley, John. 1841. Elements of botany, structural, …
- … first principles of botany. London. Lindley, John. 1853. The vegetable kingdom; or, the …
- … John Miers’s paper on the embryo and seed of the family Clusiaceae, also known as the Guttiferae ( Miers 1855 ). Beside this question CD subsequently wrote in pencil: ‘Lindley’ …
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| letter | (1) |
Author
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
Addressee
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
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| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
