Darwin, Charles. THE VARIOUS CONTRIVANCES BY WHICH BRITISH AND FOREIGN ORCHIDS ARE FERTILISED BY INSECTS, AND ON THE GOOD EFFECTS OF INTERCROSSING. JOHN MURRAY 1862 8vo, first edition, the author's son sir george howard darwin's copy, one folding plate and 33 text woodcuts, original vertically-lined plum cloth decorated and lettered in gilt and blind (variant a.), advertisements at the end dated December 1861, pale reddish-brown endpapers, cloth torn on the spine, further edge-wear, some slight foxing The author called this work a "flank movement" (Correspondence, 10.331) on the enemy, meaning that it tackled the question of design in nature.
Darwin, Charles. THE VARIOUS CONTRIVANCES BY WHICH BRITISH AND FOREIGN ORCHIDS ARE FERTILISED BY INSECTS, AND ON THE GOOD EFFECTS OF INTERCROSSING. JOHN MURRAY 1862 8vo, first edition, the author's son sir george howard darwin's copy, one folding plate and 33 text woodcuts, original vertically-lined plum cloth decorated and lettered in gilt and blind (variant a.), advertisements at the end dated December 1861, pale reddish-brown endpapers, cloth torn on the spine, further edge-wear, some slight foxing The author called this work a "flank movement" (Correspondence, 10.331) on the enemy, meaning that it tackled the question of design in nature.
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