From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Rivers
Date:
[14 Feb 1863]
Source of text:
19th Century Shop (dealers) (catalogue 5, 1988)
Summary:
Delighted by curious case of inheritance in the weeping ash [cited in missing letter from TR] "which produced weeping seedlings and itself lost the weeping peculiarity!" Wishes he could get authentic information on the weeping elm.
What TR says of seedlings conquering each other well illustrates struggle for existence and natural selection.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project