RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. Pick out of Ledebour all the genera. CUL-DAR15.2.95. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)

REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 3.2023. 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 volume CUL-DAR15.2 contains calculations and tables for Darwin's 'big book' Natural Selection F1583.

Ledebour, Karl Friedrich von. 1842-1853. Flora Rossica, sive enumeratio plantarum in totius imperii Rossici provinciis Europaeis, Asiaticis et Americanis hujusque observatarum. 4 vols. Stuttgart, IV, supp. d. 'General Observations on the Flora of the Altaic Mountains, and the Neighbouring Steppes.' Bot. Misc., 2 (1831), 245‐57. v, 45, A30. XI, 10, 12.


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Put name & volume at top of Page.—

Pick out of Ledebour all the genera with 6 & 7 species from small side & make copy then add total of those having 8 & 9 species. —Then add up. —

Then pick out & make list out of big side of those having 10, 11, 12, 13, & 14, & 15 (15) species add up; & add total to the foregoing paragraph so will then have list of of all genera with from  15 14 15 to 6 species in each. —

The total of list with 10, 11, 12, 13, & 14 & 15 & 15 species subtracted from the big side will leave the very large genera.

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(N. B If 2d vol. is done genera with 8 & 9 will have to be picked out also)


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