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To George Busk, Linnean Society1   30 March [1858]2

Down Bromley Kent

March 30th

Dear Sir

I can have no hesitation in expressing my strong opinion that the whole of Mr. Huxley’s admirable paper on the Agamic Reproduction & Embryology of Aphis, together with all the illustrations, ought to be published in the Transactions of the Linnean Society.3

Dear Sir | Yours faithfully | Ch. Darwin To | G. Busk Ere | Secretary Linnean Socy.—

Footnotes

George Busk was the under-secretary of the Linnean Society in 1858.
Dated by the reference to T. H. Huxley 1858 (see n. 3, below).
Thomas Henry Huxley had read the first part of a paper on parthenogenesis in aphids at a meeting of the Linnean Society on 5 November 1857 (see Correspondence vol. 6, letter to T. H. Huxley, [before 12 November 1857]). The second part, a detailed anatomical study of embryogenesis in aphids, had been read at a meeting on 21 January 1858. The paper was published in the society’s Transactions (T. H. Huxley 1858).

Bibliography

Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.

Summary

Expresses his strong opinion that Huxley’s paper ["Agamic reproduction and morphology of Aphis", Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. 22 (1858): 193–220, 221–36] should be published.

Letter details

Letter no.
DCP-LETT-2247
From
Charles Robert Darwin
To
George Busk; Linnean Society
Sent from
Down
Source of text
Linnean Society of London (SP.585c)
Physical description
ALS 1p

Please cite as

Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 2247,” accessed on 19 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-2247.xml

Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 7

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