RECORD: Darwin, C. R. [1857]. Thwaites writes to me that Rhod[odendron] arboreum Abstract of CUL-DAR47.51. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 7.2022. 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-DAR47 contains notes for Natural selection chap. 7 'Laws of Variation'.
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Thwaites writes to me that Rhod. arboreum was the plant which furnished me with fact that the same species obtained from different elevations differ with capability of being cultivated in given fixed elevation.— (It is not said seed.) Quote above sentence
["Mr. Thwaites, the curator of the Botanic Garden at Ceylon, whose accuracy is well known, writes to me, that he finds 'that individuals of the same species are acclimatised to different elevations,—being more & more impatient of cultivation at any station, according as they have been transported to it, from stations of greater & greater altitude.'" See Darwin to Thwaites 7 February [1858] Correspondence vol. 7, p. 15.]
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