From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:
[6 Mar 1857]
Source of text:
DAR 146: 71
Summary:
Voting to elect JL [a member of Athenaeum].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Voting to elect JL [a member of Athenaeum].
Thinking about HF’s paper on Plagiaulax [Q. J. Geol. Soc. Lond. 13 (1857): 261–82]. Owen might answer that all Purbeck mammals are marsupials.
HCW is trying to define what CD means by "variable" genera.
Comments on transport of ducks to Jamaica by hurricanes,
fish feeding on seeds,
and sterility of birds in captivity.
Separation of sexes in trees [U. S.].
Do plants offer positive evidence for "continuous land" theory?
Protean genera.
Ranges of species in large vs small genera: Asa Gray’s compilation fits CD’s expectation.
CD studies seedling mortality in his weed garden.
JDH’s work on Indian flora.
Sends account of his successful experiments in feeding wheat seeds to minnows.