RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. [Abstract of R. D. Fitzgerald. Orchids of Australia.] CUL-DAR70.72. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 8.2021. 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-DAR70 contains material for Darwin's book Orchids (2d ed. 1877).
Robert David Fitzgerald (1830-1892). Orchids of Australia. Sydney: Thomas Richards, Government Printer, between 1875 and 1894.[72]
Fitzgerald Grand folio Book on Australian orchids - doubts about Pterostylis closing for fertilisation, though he saw beetle effects removal of pollinia; but then as he doubts against all analogy, that nectary of Angraecum is for Sphinx - does not much signify.
Citation: John van Wyhe, ed. 2002-. The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online. (http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
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