Candolle
Americannoun
noun
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To the celebrated French botanist Alphonse de Candolle he wrote:
From Time • Nov. 24, 2014
De Candolle, as noted in the first part of this work, considered the region about the Caspian Sea as the probable habitat of the Old World grape.
From Manual of American Grape-Growing by Hedrick, U. P.
De Candolle, P., non-variability of monotypic genera, ii.
From The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Volume II (of 2) by Darwin, Charles
Among the causes of the dispersal of seeds De Candolle enumerates the wind, rivers, ocean currents, icebergs, birds and other animals, and human agency.
From Island Life Or the Phenomena and Causes of Insular Faunas and Floras by Wallace, Alfred Russel
De Candolle, Professor A., sending him the 'Origin of Species,' 209.
From Charles Darwin: His Life in an Autobiographical Chapter, and in a Selected Series of His Published Letters by Darwin, Charles
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