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To Virginius Dabney 20 October 1878
Summary
CD is puzzled by VD’s supposed hybrid tomato. If a hybrid, it would have to result from the "direct action of the pollen of a distinct species in the mother plant". CD believes this sort of inheritance occurs in varieties (though some botanists disagree), but not for species. Suggests "bud-variation".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Virginius Dabney |
| Date: | 20 Oct 1878 |
| Classmark: | University of Virginia Library, Special Collections (3314 1: 63 MSS 3082-a) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11725 |
