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To Chauncey Wright   6 April 1872

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Delighted to have cloud of darkness removed by CW’s paper on phyllotaxy [Mem. Am. Acad. Arts & Sci. n.s. 9 (1867–73): 379–415].

Has heard that Mivart will answer CW’s pamphlet [Darwinism (1871)].

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Chauncey Wright
Date:  6 Apr 1872
Classmark:  American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-8277

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  • Hugh Falconer mentioned the laws of phyllotaxy as being suggestive of ‘a deeper seated and innate principle, to the operation of which “Natural Selection” is merely an adjunct’ (see also Correspondence vol.  10, …
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