From:
William Darwin Fox
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Mar [1856]
Source of text:
DAR 164: 174
Summary:
Is trying to procure some cocks for CD.
Believes Scotch deerhounds are mongrels.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Henry Kendrick Thwaites
Date:
8 Mar 1856
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.125)
Summary:
Hopes GHKT will publish on variations in plant species at different elevations. Asks about variations among plants on heights of Ceylon.
Promises to publish on the species question.
Asks for pigeons’ skins from India or Ceylon, and for ducks’ skeletons. Mentions help promised by E. F. Kelaart.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Thomas Hutton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Mar 1856
Source of text:
DAR 166: 283
Summary:
TH believes that the progeny of hybrid crosses, in which a domesticated or "artificial" race is involved, tend to resemble the more "natural" of their parents [see Natural selection, p. 486].
Provides some information on local hybrid domestic geese [see Natural selection, p. 439] and pigeons.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
1856 March 8
Source of text:
MS JT/1/A/28, RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project