Asks CD to make his queries about proportion of sexes more precise so he can keep them in mind in his experiments with silkworms. [see Descent 1: 313.]
Showing 1–4 of 4 items
The Charles Darwin Collection
The Darwin Correspondence Project is publishing letters written by and to the naturalist Charles Darwin (1809–1882). Complete transcripts of letters are being made available through the Project’s website (www.darwinproject.ac.uk) after publication in the ongoing print edition of The Correspondence of Charles Darwin (Cambridge University Press 1985–). Metadata and summaries of all known letters (c. 15,000) appear in Ɛpsilon, and the full texts of available letters can also be searched, with links to the full texts.
Asks CD to make his queries about proportion of sexes more precise so he can keep them in mind in his experiments with silkworms. [see Descent 1: 313.]
Proportion of sexes in insects, captured and bred. [see Descent 1: 313.]
On proportion of sexes [of moths?] raised from larvae: AW does not select largest exclusively.
Account of lambing in 1864 after unusual drought.
Gives information on the proportions of sexes of certain moths. [See Descent 1: 313.]