From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
6 Apr [1869-71]
Source of text:
L’Autographe (dealers) (Catalogue 21)
Summary:
"My experiment was intended solely to show that colour reappeared, and I choose kinds which breed [true] to colour, as is certainly the case with [sports] and those which I tried . . .
I have recorded an undoubted case of wild rock Pigeons caught in Scotland having bred in confinement …"
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project