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RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. Abstract of Godron, Fécondation des végétaux / Draft of Descent, vol. 1. CUL-DAR110.A36. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)

REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 1.2023. RN1

NOTE: See record in the Darwin Online manuscript catalogue, enter its Identifier here.Reproduced with permission of the Syndics of Cambridge University Library and William Huxley Darwin. The volumes CUL-DAR108-111 contain material for Darwin's book Forms of flowers (1877). Draft is in the hand of Ebenezer Norman with corrections by Darwin. The text of this draft corresponds to Descent 2: 376-7.

D. A. Godron. 1875. Fécondation des végétaux. Revue des sciences naturelles 4: 331-5.

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Godron case of Hybrid Primula

Cross-Fertilisation p. 378

[Cross and self fertilisation, p. 378: "But the most striking case which has been recorded is that by M. Godron,† who shows by the nature of the hybrids produced that Primula grandiflora must have been crossed with pollen brought by bees from P. officinalis, growing at the distance of above two kilometres, or of about one English mile and a quarter.
† 'Revue des Sc. Nat.' 1875 page 331."]

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the best-provided to the worst provided or degenerate male.

Although the mandibles of the common stag-beetle, and probably of ~~some~~ many other species, are used as efficient weapon for fighting, it is doubtful whether their great size can thus be accounted for. We have seen that with Lucanus elaphus they

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