From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Darwin Fox
Date:
21 Oct [1868]
Source of text:
Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 149); DAR 266
Summary:
Reminds WDF to write about the "great magpie marriage". Sexual selection an "everlasting subject".
News of his children.
Asks for information on instances of sexual preference in animals and data on numbers of males and females born in various domesticated species.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project