RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. Abstract of Darwin, C. R. On the Agency of Bees, etc; Bees and the fertilisation of kidney beans. CUL-DAR76.B136. (John van Wyhe ed., 2002-. The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)

REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 12.2022. 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 volumes CUL-DAR 76-79 contain material for Darwin's book Cross and self fertilisation (1876). See Cross and self fertilisation, p. 430.

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Annals & Mag of N. Hist. (3d. S.) Vol. 2. 1858 p. 459.

My paper on crossing kidney "agency of Bees in the Fert of Papilionaceous flowers". is given.—

Intercrossing

Darwin, C. R. 1858. On the agency of bees in the fertilisation of papilionaceous flowers, and on the crossing of kidney beans. Gardeners' Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette no. 46 (13 November): 828-9. Text

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Gardeners Chronicle 1857. p. 725

my notice on Fertilisation of Kidney beans

Darwin, C. R. 1857. Bees and the fertilisation of kidney beans. Gardeners' Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette no. 43 (24 October): 725. F1697

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