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RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. Abstract of Knight, An Account of some Experiments on the Fecundation of Vegetables. CUL-DAR205.7.232-233. 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-DAR205.7 contains notes on hybridism, sterility and pigeons.

Knight, Andrew Thomas. 1799. An account of some experiments on the fecundation of vegetables. In a Letter from Thomas Andrew Knight, Esq. to the Right Hon. Sir Joseph Banks, K. B. P. R. S. Read May 9, 1799. Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London 89: 195-204.

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Phil Trans. 1799. Mr Knight on Fecundation

p 201 in apples sometimes male & sometimes female prevailed, sometimes mingled from seeds of same apple. — also from same berry of grape

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Important conclusion // How similar are effects of first cross in domesticated varieties with second & subsequent generations of true hybrids //

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Argues against Existence of such a thing as a real Hybrid, & argues because not more hybrids — is unaware of pollen knowing its own stigma & stigma its pollen. —

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