From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Darwin Fox
Date:
14 June [1856]
Source of text:
Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 98)
Summary:
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.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project