From L. A. Errera 15 September 1877
Summary
Young Belgian students [L. A. Errera and Gustave Gevaert] ask CD to read their paper, which summarises Cross and self-fertilisation. They criticise CD’s views on the comparative effects of crossing flowers on the same stem and fertilisation of a flower by its own pollen ["Sur la structure et les modes de fécondation des fleurs", Bull. Soc. Bot. Belg. 17 (1878): 38–181, 182–248].
Author: | Léo Abram Errera |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 15 Sept 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 163: 26 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11142 |
To L. A. Errera 18 September 1877
Summary
Agrees to look over MS.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Léo Abram Errera |
Date: | 18 Sept 1877 |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.521) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11144 |
From L. A. Errera 30 September 1877
Summary
Sending MS.
Used Anton Kerner’s nomenclature for designating crosses.
Thanks CD for Forms of flowers.
Author: | Léo Abram Errera |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 30 Sept 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 163: 27 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11160 |
To L. A. Errera 4 October 1877
Summary
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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Errera, L. A. | (3) |
Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
Errera, L. A. | (2) |
Darwin, C. R. | (5) |
Errera, L. A. |