From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
9 Dec [1856]
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 42, 374)
Summary:
Grateful for Siebold’s wonderful facts [C. T. E. von Siebold, On a true parthenogenesis in moths and bees (1856), trans. by W. S. Dallas (1857)].
Vitality of spermatozoa.
Hybridisation of bees. Bees are in one respect his greatest theoretical difficulty.
CD still convinced about the relation of cement receptacles and ovarian tubes [in Crustacea].
Birth of C. W. Darwin.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project