From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Darwin Fox
Date:
4 June [1856]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.130)
Summary:
Thanks WDF for specimen of Dorking cock.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Thanks WDF for specimen of Dorking cock.
The responses to his queries on domestic variations are coming in from all over; believes he will make an interesting collection. At present concerned with rabbits and ducks.
Has told Lyell of his views on species and CL urges CD to publish a preliminary essay. Has begun to work on it, with fear and trembling at its inadequacies.
Does not intend to work systematically on cats. Their origin is in doubt and they have been crossed too many ways.
It would be valuable to know whether half-bred ducks are fertile inter se or with a third breed. Is investigating this with pigeons.