From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Spence Bate
Date:
29 Nov [1857]
Source of text:
Bonhams (dealers) (22 October 2014)
Summary:
Asking for specific information about reproduction in barnacles.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Asking for specific information about reproduction in barnacles.
Thanks AG for his criticisms of CD’s views; finds it difficult to avoid using the term "natural selection" as an agent.
Discusses crossing in Fumaria and barnacles.
Has received a naturally crossed kidney bean in which the seed-coat has been affected by the pollen of the fertilising plant.
Finds the rule of large genera having most varieties holds good and regards it as most important for his "principle of divergence".