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IN the notice of Mr. Darwin (vol. x. p. 80, bottom of 2nd col.) a mishap has somehow occurred which blunts the point intended to be made prominent and renders the statement untrue. I supposed that I had written “And we know from another source that he (Mr. Brown) looked upon Sprengel's ideas as by no means fantastic. Yet instead,” &c. The object was to show how very near Mr. Brown came to reaching the principle that Nature abhors close-fertilisation in plants, and yet did not reach it at all. The authority for the statement I wished to make will be found in a footnote in Mr. Darwin's book on the “Fertilisation of Orchids,” p. 340.
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GRAY, A. Robert Brown and Sprengel. Nature 10, 161 (1874). https://doi.org/10.1038/010161c0
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