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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…

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  • 5 December 1871 ). When Darwin began writing in February 1873, he asked Hooker for names of
  • system to follow ( To JDHooker, 17 February 1873 ). Despite also working on experiments with
  • with this & get it published’ ( To Asa Gray, 11 March [1873] ). In April 1873, the
  • Translators, Reviewers, &c.’ ( To John Murray, 4 May [1873] ). In reply to his German
  • when it will be published’ ( To JVCarus, 8 May [1873] ). Hermann Müller also wrote from
  • my further working’ ( From Hermann Müller, 10 June 1873 ). Darwin, in turn, had found Müllers
  • them by different routes’ ( To Hermann Müller, 30 May 1873 ). Although Darwin had completed a
  • must turn to the vegetable kingdomIn June 1873, Delpino informed Darwin that
  • to avoid crossing ( From Federico Delpino, 18 June 1873 ). Darwin was intrigued. ‘I am very glad
  • Bees’, he told Delpino ( To Federico Delpino, 25 June [1873] ). Darwins suspicion that sweet peas
  • his crossing experiments through the early summer, by August 1873, Darwin decided to shift focus
  • effects of Interbreeding’ ( To JVCarus, 2 August [1873] ). In September, Darwin wrote a
  • conditions of life’ ( To  Nature , 20 September [1873] ). Just as the free-swimming barnacle
  • of their parents’ ( To Fritz Müller, 25 September 1873 ). But by March 1874, some doubts seemed to
  • will always be men who dispute and differThomas Meehan had been a vocal opponent of
  • insects any material aid to plants in fertilization?’ (Meehan 1875) prompted Darwin to inform him
  • it is a great advantage to plants to intercross’ ( To Thomas Meehan, 3 October 1875 ). Hermann
  • interestand hoped it would silence writers like Meehan, Pedecino, and Comes ( From Hermann Müller