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80. An autograph letter written to the Duc du Chesne, recom- 
mending a friend and asking for seeds, signed “ C. Linné.’ 
POST-LINNAEAN BOTANICAL CLASSICS 
S81. Brown, Roperr. 
Observations on the organs and mode of fecundation im Orchi- 
deae and Aselepiadeae. Reprint in The Miscellaneous Botanical 
Work of Robert Brown (Ray Society, London, 1866) of Brow n’s 
paper originally published in the Transactions of the Linnean Se. 
ciety, 16: 685-745. 1833. 
It is in this paper that the discovery of the nucleus is first an- 
nounced as an organ of the cell. ‘In each cell of the epidermis 
of a great part of this family [Orchideae] . . . a single circular 
areola, generally somewhat more opaque than the membrane of 
the cell, is observable . . . There is no regularity as to its place in 
the cell; it is not infrequently however central or nearly so 
This areola, or nucleus of the cell as perhaps it might be termed, is 
not confined to the epidermis,” ete. 
82. |CuaAmBers, RoBert | 
Vestiges of the natural history of creation, with a sequel. New 
York, 1846. Anonymous reprint of the original London edition 
of 1844 advertised under the pseudonym, “ Sir Richard Vyvyan, 
Bart... M.P., FoR.s4 Oo 
Did much to remove bias and prejudice against the idea of or- 
ganic evolution. A storm of abuse that would otherwise have 
been added to what Darwin did receive, was diverted to the author 
of the Vestiges. “It is full of apt and forcible illustrations of 
pseudo-scientific realism” (Huxley). “ A’ time when there was 
no life is first seen. We then see life begin and go on . . . This 
is a wonderful revelation to have come upon the men of our time 
The great fact established by it is, that the organic creation, 
as we now see it, was not placed upon the earth at once ;—it ob- 
served a PROGRESS . . . We can imagine Divine power evoking a 
whole creation into being by one word; but we find that such had 
not been his mode of working in that instance [ontogeny], for 
eeology fully proves that organic creation passed through a series 
of stages before the highest vegetable and animal forms appeared. 
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