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Letter 679 the hypothesis of pangenesis, and delights me. If you try 

 other cases, do draw up a paper on the subject of inheritance 

 of separate flowers for the Bot. Zeitung or some journal. 

 Most men, as far as my experience goes, are too ready to 

 publish, but you seem to enjoy making most interesting 

 observations and discoveries, and are sadly too slow in 

 publishing. 



Letter 680 To F. Muller. 



Barmouth, July i8th, 1869. 



I received your last letter shortly before leaving home for 

 this place. Owing to this cause and to having been more 

 unwell than usual I have been very dilatory in writing to you. 

 When I last heard, about six or eight weeks ago, from Mr. 

 Murray, one hundred copies of your book l had been sold, and 

 I daresay five hundred may now be sold. This will quite 

 repay me, if not all the money ; for I am sure that your book 

 will have got into the hands of a good many men capable of 

 understanding it : indeed, I know that it has. But it is too 

 deep for the general public. I sent you two or three reviews 

 one of which, in the Athenaeum? was unfavourable ; but this 

 journal has abused me, and all who think with me, for many 

 years. I enclose two more notices, not that they are worth 

 sending : some other brief notices have appeared. The case 

 of the Abutilon 3 sterile with some individuals is remarkable : 

 I believe that I had one plant of Reseda odorata which was 

 fertile with own pollen, but all that I have tried since were 

 sterile except with pollen from some other individual. I 

 planted the seeds of the Abutilon, but I fear that they were 

 crushed in the letter. Your Eschscholtzia plants were growing 

 well when I left home, to which place we shall return by the 

 end of this month, and I will observe whether they are self- 

 sterile. I sent your curious account of the monstrous Begonia 

 to the Linnean Society, 4 and I suppose it will be published 

 in the Journal. I sent the extract about grafted orange trees 



1 Facts and Arguments for Darwin, 1869 : see Vol. I., Letter 227. 



3 Athencp.um, 1869, p. 431. 



1 " Bestaubungsversuche an Abutilon-Arten." Jenaische Zeitschr., VII., 

 1873, p. 22. 



4 " On the Modification of the Stamens in a Species of Begonia." 

 Journ. Linn. Soc., XI., 1871, p. 472, 



