RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. Abstract of Brown, On the organs and mode of fecundation in Orchidiæ and Asclepiadeæ. CUL-DAR205.6.30. Edited by John van Wyhe (The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 11.2021. 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-DAR205.6 contains notes on embryology [pigeons]. See CUL-DAR74.169-172.
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R. Brown shows that in Asclepsias the most anomalous union of Pollen masses glands & stigma does not take place in embryonic condition.
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[Brown, Robert. 1833. On the organs and mode of fecundation in Orchidiæ and Asclepiadeæ. [Read 1 and 15 November 1831.] Transactions of the Linnean Society of London 16: 685-745.
Brown, Robert. 1831. Observations on the organs and mode of fecundation in Orchideae and Asclepiadeae. London: Richard Taylor. (slightly modified preprint of: Brown, 1833. On the organs and mode of fecundation in Orchides and Asclepiadeie. [Read 1 and 15 November.] Transactions of the Linnean Society of London 16: 685-745.) [signed "Given to me by Mr. Brown on Friday December 9th. 1831"][Darwin Pamphlet Collection 294] PDF ]
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