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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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  • produced by a cross between two distinct plants’ ( To JDHooker, 17 March [1867] ). He noted
  • odoratus ), and in October 1867, Darwin wrote to James Moggridge to ask him to observe whether
  • of France where Moggridge lived for part of the year ( To JTMoggridge, 1 October [1867] ). …
  • to impotence when taken from the same plant!’ ( To JDHooker, 21 May [1868] ) Pollen tubes, or
  • the season it becomes capable of self-fertilisation’ ( To JDHooker, 23 July [1871] ). Darwin
  • with choosing which taxonomic system to follow ( To JDHooker, 17 February 1873 ). Despite also
  • … & I have no idea when it will be published’ ( To JVCarus, 8 May [1873] ). Hermann Müller
  • and not onthe evil effects of Interbreeding’ ( To JVCarus, 2 August [1873] ). In
  • … ( To Fritz Müller, 25 September 1873 ). But by March 1874, some doubts seemed to have arisen when
  • … & Trimorphic plants with new & related matter. ( To JVCarus, 19 March [1874] ). A year
  • … ‘I have to add new researches on this subject. ( To JVCarus   7 February 1875 ). In fact, …
  • planned to publish his earlier papers in the same book ( To JVCarus, 25 December 1875 ). …
  • with which they grow mingled in a state of nature’ ( To J. H. Gilbert, 16 February 1876 ). Darwin
  • with a recipe for treating soil to remove nutrients ( From JHGilbert, 4 March 1876 ). In June
  • page, & which will be published early in November’ ( To JVCarus, 27 September 1876 ). The
  • ARWallace, 13 December 1876 ). No reply to this letter has been found, but Darwin had long
  • to review it forNature”— he gloats over it' ( From JDHooker, 27 January 1877 ). Darwin