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From John Scott 6 December [1862]
Summary
JS not ready to publish on Primula.
Some of his objections to natural selection are based on belief that plants with separate sexes are less variable than those in which sexes are confluent (as in ferns).
Sends his paper on fern varieties [Edinburgh New Philos. J. 2d ser. 16 (1862): 209–27].
Will soon read paper on Drosera irritability [Edinburgh New Philos. J. 2d ser. 17 (1863): 317–18].
How does CD explain capricious distribution of irritability among plants?
P. scotica’s non-dimorphism is native.
Beginning Laelia experiments shortly.
| Author: | John Scott |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 6 Dec [1862] |
| Classmark: | DAR 108: 182a–d |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3847 |
