RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. Even in cultivated Plants, protected as much as possible from Struggle, one var of wheat will beat out & exterminate another var. CUL-DAR46.1.13. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)

REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 8.2022. 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. The volume CUL-DAR46.1 contains Notes for Natural selection chap. 5 'Struggle for existence'.


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Even in cultivated Plants, protected as much as possible from Struggle, one var of wheat will beat out & exterminate another var.

V. Le Couteur

So in Sweet Peas.

[Le Couteur, John. 1836. On the varieties, properties and classification of wheat. Jersey and London. Another abstract in CUL-DAR74.152-153.]


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