skip to content

Darwin Correspondence Project

Search: contains ""

400 Bad Request

Bad Request

Your browser sent a request that this server could not understand.


Apache Server at dcp-public.lib.cam.ac.uk Port 443
Search:
in keywords
1 Items

Cross and self fertilisation

Summary

The effects of cross and self fertilisation in the vegetable kingdom, published on 10 November 1876, was the result of a decade-long project to provide evidence for Darwin’s belief that ‘‘Nature thus tells us, in the most emphatic manner, that she abhors…

Matches: 6 hits

  • … [1866] ). By early December, the French botanist Édouard Bornet had provided seeds of some …
  • … ( To Fritz Müller, [late December 1866 and] 1 January 1867 ). The following year, his experiments …
  • … to the conditions that might affect his results. In March 1867, he told his close friend Joseph …
  • … two distinct plants’ ( To J. D. Hooker, 17 March [1867] ). He noted another factor in a letter to …
  • … & so have been rarely crossed’ ( To Asa Gray, 15 April [1867] ). One of these ‘exotics’ was …
  • … for part of the year ( To J. T. Moggridge, 1 October [1867] ). Darwin was beginning to suspect …