RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. Abstract of Westwood, On caprification as practised upon the figs in the South of Europe and the Levant, etc. CUL-DAR49.20a. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)

REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 1.2022. 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-DAR49 contains notes for Natural selection chap. 3 on 'On...organic beings occasionally crossing' or dichogamy.

Westwood J. O. 1840. On caprification as practised upon the figs in the South of Europe and the Levant, with descriptions of the insects employed for that purpose; and observations upon the Agaon paradoxum of Dalman. Transactions Entomological Society of London 2: 214-224.


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Entomolog. Transact. Vol II. p. 214. 1841 on Caprification by Westwood - it seems far from certain that the insects do not carry pollen


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