From:
William Herbert, dean of Manchester
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[c. 27 June 1839]
Source of text:
DAR 185: 67
Summary:
Rejects necessity of outbreeding and any general law of reversion.
Describes further experiments with Hippeastrum showing greater fertility with foreign pollen than with individual’s own pollen or with pollen from another individual of same species.
Does not believe CD’s questions about reversion can be answered in present state of knowledge.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
