From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
24 Sept 1873
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.432)
Summary:
Discusses apple specimens received from CL; reversion to crab state. Cites passage on subject in Variation.
Comments on letter from Mr Wood on inheritance in fruit-trees.
Would like to cross flowers of "Hawthornden" with many distinct varieties.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project