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To T. H. Farrer   15 September [1868]

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Comments on THF’s MS [on fertilisation of scarlet runners]. Suggests publication, though CD anticipated main features ten years before. Is amused at the caution with which THF put his case that the final end [of the contrivances] was crossing distinct individuals.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
Date:  15 Sept [1868]
Classmark:  Linnean Society of London (LS Ms 299/4)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-6365

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  • J.  D.  Hooker, 22 [August 1862] and n.  13). CD gave more detailed instructions on viewing pollen tubes, including the use of the compound microscope, in Correspondence vol.  12, letter to P.  H.  Gosse, 7 April [1864] . …
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