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To L. A. Errera   4 October 1877

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Approves terms used in LAE’s manuscript. Discusses relative advantages of self-fertilisation and cross-fertilisation.

Thanks LAE for pointing out erratum [in Cross and self-fertilisation].

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Léo Abram Errera
Date:  4 Oct 1877
Classmark:  American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.523)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11166

From L. A. Errera   10 October 1877

Summary

CD has made clear that in Cross and self-fertilisation he had not intended to suggest that autogamie (fertilisation of a flower by its own pollen) is superior to gitonogamie (fertilisation of a flower by one on the same plant).

Author:  Léo Abram Errera
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  10 Oct 1877
Classmark:  DAR 163: 28
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11177
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