From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Rivers
Date:
23 Dec [1862]
Source of text:
Sotheby’s (dealers) (23–4 July 1987)
Summary:
CD is collecting [for Variation] all accounts of what some call "sports" and what he calls "bud-variations". He asks whether very slight variations in fruit appear suddenly by buds, or whether only rather strongly marked varieties thus appear.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project