RECORD: Darwin, C. R. [1857?]. [On Sir William Macarthur's comment on Erythrina]. CUL-DAR49.139. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 4.2021. RN1
NOTE: Darwin mentions to Syms Covington (22 February 1857) that he "lately dined" with Sir W. Macarthur. He wrote to Asa Gray (15 March 1857) and Hooker (12 January 1858). He also cited Macarthur's observation in the Gardeners' Chronicle, (13 November 1858).
Reproduced with permission of the Syndics of Cambridge University Library and William Huxley Darwin. The volume CUL-DAR49 contains notes for Natural selection chap. 3 on 'On...organic beings occasionally crossing' or dichogamy.
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Sir W MacArthur tells me he made Erythrina hybrid – That Erythrina will not seed freely without each flower be [illeg] so that pollen are forced out
Fewer hybrids can be made here without [castration] as he has affected.
The Hybrid Erythrina quite sterile.
Citation: John van Wyhe, ed. 2002-. The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online. (http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
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