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RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. Abstract of Gärtner, Versuche und Beobachtungen über die Bastarderzeugung im Pflanzenreich, etc. CUL-DAR205.7.256. 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.

Gärtner, Karl Friedrich von. 1849. Versuche und Beobachtungen über die Bastarderzeugung im Pflanzenreich. Mit Hinweisung auf die ähnlichen Erscheinungen im Thierreiche, ganz umgearbeitete und sehr vermehrte Ausgabe der von der Königlich holländischen Akademie der Wissenschaften. Stuttgart: E. Schweizerbart.

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Gartner. Bastardz. s. 459, p 228. p. 231 465 show that H. from reciprocal crosses, though quite identical in appearance, are reduced at different rates which shows some innate difference in them (besides in their different fertility) (Q)

Gartner p. 223-225 compares reciprocal plants & animals.

I ought just to allude to this

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Sexual secondary difference interfere with making out law of resemblance in animal— Gartner B. p 231. Yet think of Horse & ass— prepotency going by with sex, I suspect is a a great difference —

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