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From:
William Alexander Wooler
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Feb 1861
Source of text:
DAR 181: 156
Summary:

Discusses the colouring of the young of various breeds of rabbit.

Observations on results of various poultry crosses and on a character which is linked to sex.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Alexander Wooler
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 July 1862
Source of text:
DAR 181: 157
Summary:

Believes, contrary to CD, that when anthers arise from petals the development of the pollen is affected by the amputation of the petal.

Believes interbreeding can be used to combine desirable characters, but that, carried beyond narrow limits, it leads to deterioration of the breed.

Has been experimenting on crossing polyanthus.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Alexander Wooler
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 May 1863
Source of text:
DAR 181: 158
Summary:

Encloses plants derived from a cowslip–polyanthus cross.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Alexander Wooler
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 Dec 1868
Source of text:
DAR 181: 159
Summary:

Observations that confirm CD’s deduction that half-bred Persian cats are fruitful one with another. Relates case of Persian characters reappearing in the offspring of a common cat which was the descendant of a half-bred Persian.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project