From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
14 [Jan 1862]
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 167)
Summary:
On success of THH’s Edinburgh lectures.
Agrees that THH is right that the hybrid question is a "hiatus" [in the argument for natural selection] but he overrates it. Crossed varieties frequently produce sterile offspring. On this question asks THH to read his Primula paper [Collected papers 2: 45–63]. CD suspects sterility will come to be viewed as a selected character.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project