From:
Edinburgh Royal Medical Society
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 12 Dec 1862]
Source of text:
DAR 229: 6
Summary:
A diploma enrolling CD as an honorary member of the Society.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
12 [Dec 1862]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 176
Summary:
Maintains his view on crossing. Thinks practical breeders would agree with him; doubts that variability and domestication are at all necessarily correlative.
Identical plants in different conditions a heavy argument against "direct action" [of physical conditions].
His 1000-pigeon case is altered if long-beaked are in least degree sterile with short-beaked.
His work on dimorphism inclines him to believe that sterility is at first a selected quality to keep incipient species distinct.
Case of easy modification of Lythrum pollen to favour or prevent crossing.
Monsters.
Has just finished chapter on variations of cultivated plants.
Edinburgh doctors have sent him Diploma of Medical Society.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Forsell Kirby
Date:
12 Dec [1862]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:
CD sends thanks for Manual of European butterflies [1862].
Is pleased that WFK does not believe in immutability of species, "a doctrine perfectly adapted to stop philosophical research", and hopes he will publish further.
Notes WFK’s name is the same as the entomologist’s.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project