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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Darwin Fox
Date:
18 Oct [1860]
Source of text:
Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 130)
Summary:

The hybrid case is most curious, if true. So many have tried to get hybrids from hare and rabbit.

Has done little regular work – correspondence on Origin has been gigantic.

Has amused himself working on power of Drosera to catch flies.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Robert Patterson
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Oct 1860
Source of text:
DAR 46.1: 89–90
Summary:

Sends an account of the destruction of wild rabbits by rats introduced from a wrecked ship.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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