RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. Abstract of Kölreuter, Dissertationis de antherarum polvere continuatio. CUL-DAR205.5.39. 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 volume CUL-DAR205.5 contains notes on the principle of divergence, transitional organs and instincts.
Kölreuter, I. T. 1809. Dissertationis de antherarum polvere continuatio. Mémoires de l'académie impériale des sciences de St. Petersbourg 3.
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Mem. de l'Acad. St. Petersb. 3/195. Kölreuter dissert de pulv. anther.
Says in some genera nowin allied peculiar form of pollen same — with few exceptions same form common to families & genera, but in some few closely allied species. viz M. Mimosa?? sensitiva et virgata Convolvulus arvensis &c. oval & smooth. C. Nil subrotundus &c spinosus &c &c yet the pollen has different form— Why is it that no orga structure is constant, however important in every genus in series? —
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