Charles Darwin: His life told in an autobiographical chapter, and in a selected series of his published letters1908 |
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... Orchids , which cost me ten months ' work , was published : most of the facts had been slowly accumulated during several previous years . During the summer of 1839 , and , I believe , during the previous summer , I was led to attend to ...
... Orchids , which cost me ten months ' work , was published : most of the facts had been slowly accumulated during several previous years . During the summer of 1839 , and , I believe , during the previous summer , I was led to attend to ...
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... lectures , about twining plants , namely , that they had a natural tendency to grow up in a spire . This explanation proved quite erroneous . Some of the adaptations displayed by climbing plants CH . II . ] ¡ 45 ORCHIDS .
... lectures , about twining plants , namely , that they had a natural tendency to grow up in a spire . This explanation proved quite erroneous . Some of the adaptations displayed by climbing plants CH . II . ] ¡ 45 ORCHIDS .
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... Orchids for ensuring cross- fertilisation . My Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication was begun , as already stated , in the beginning of 1860 , but was not published until the beginning of 1868. It was a big book , and ...
... Orchids for ensuring cross- fertilisation . My Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication was begun , as already stated , in the beginning of 1860 , but was not published until the beginning of 1868. It was a big book , and ...
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... the Effects of Cross- and Self - Fertilisation in the Vegetable Kingdom . This hook will form a complement to that on the Fertilisation of the results . Orchids , in which I showed how Сн . П. ] 47 ' DESCENT OF MAN . '
... the Effects of Cross- and Self - Fertilisation in the Vegetable Kingdom . This hook will form a complement to that on the Fertilisation of the results . Orchids , in which I showed how Сн . П. ] 47 ' DESCENT OF MAN . '
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... Orchids , and here- after my papers on dimorphic and trimorphic plants , together with some additional observations on allied points which I never have had time to arrange . My strength will then probably be exhausted , and I shall be ...
... Orchids , and here- after my papers on dimorphic and trimorphic plants , together with some additional observations on allied points which I never have had time to arrange . My strength will then probably be exhausted , and I shall be ...
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