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To Linnean Society, President and Council [10 May 1869]
Summary
Referee report on paper by Richard Spruce on sacs in Melastoma [see 6690]. CD says RS’s suggestions that sacs are inherited is not supported and should be deleted.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Hellier Baily |
| Date: | [10 May 1869] |
| Classmark: | Linnean Society of London |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6722 |
To Linnean Society, President and Council 10 May 1869
Summary
Recommends publication of Mrs Barber’s paper on a rare case of fertilisation of a plant by one kind of insect alone, with access of others prevented by a mechanical obstacle [Mary Elizabeth Barber, "On the fertilisation and dissemination of Duvernoia adhatodoides", J. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Bot.) 11 (1869): 469–72].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Hellier Baily |
| Date: | 10 May 1869 |
| Classmark: | Linnean Society of London (SP.57) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6740 |
