From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
[before 12 Nov 1857]
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 58)
Summary:
Glad THH has taken up aphid question versus Owen ["On the agamic reproduction and morphology of Aphis", Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. 22 (1858): 193–236].
Fertilisation and inheritance discussed. Speculates that fertilisation may be a mixture rather than a fusion. Can understand in no other way why crossed forms tend to go back to ancestral forms.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project