DARWIN, Charles (1809-1882). The Different Forms of Flowers in Plants of the Same Species. London: John Murray, 1877. FIRST EDITION.
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DARWIN, Charles (1809-1882). The Different Forms of Flowers in Plants of the Same Species. London: John Murray, 1877.
8vo. 32 pp. publisher’s advertisements dated March 1877. Original publisher’s blindstamped green cloth, spine gilt, uncut and partially unopened (some very light wear to corners, upper hinge just starting).
FIRST EDITION, one of 1250 copies, of Darwin’s account of his experiments with cross-pollination. “Darwin noticed that some species flowers differ by the lengths of their anthers and styles…these observations formed the basis of Different Forms of Flowers (1877)…Darwin had experimentally discovered and demonstrated the fact of hybrid vigor, or heterosis, which is completely explained by Mendelian genetics” (DSB). Freeman 1277; Norman 602.
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