RECORD: Darwin, C. R. [1878].07.07. Draft letter to Spottiswoode / Draft of Cross and self fertilisation. CUL-DAR202.83. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 10.2022. 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.
Draft of Cross and self fertilisation in the hand of Ebenezer Norman with corrections by Darwin.
"Norman, Ebenezer, 1835/6-1923. 1854- Schoolmaster at Down and from 1856 and many years thereafter copyist for CD. 1856 Aug. 17 First payment for copying in CD's Account book (Down House MS). Many thereafter. CCD6:444. 1857 CD to Hooker, "I am employing a laboriously careful Schoolmaster". CCD6:443. 1858 CD to Hooker, "I can get the Down schoolmaster to do it [i.e. transcribe] on my return". CCD7:130. 1871 Banker's clerk in Deptford." (Paul van Helvert & John van Wyhe, Darwin: A Companion, 2021)
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[Letter not transcribed]
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Mr. Bell has given a most interesting account (The Naturalist in Nicaragua, 1874, p. 218) of the paramount importance of ants as defenders of the above acacia. With respect to the Cecropia see Nature 1876, p. 304. My son Francis has described the microscopical structure and development of these wonderful food-bodies in a paper read before the Linnæan Society.
[Cross and self fertilisation, p. 404, n.]
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