To T. C. Eyton 2 November [1857]1
Down Bromley Kent
November 2d.
Dear Eyton
Will you forgive me troubling you with a question, which you can answer by “yes” or “no”. Did you observe that your hybrids between the Chinese & common form, were at all wilder or less tame than both parents?2 I have been informed that this is sometimes the case with hybrids, as with those from common & Musk Duck.3
Yours most truly | C. Darwin
Footnotes
Bibliography
Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.
Natural selection: Charles Darwin’s Natural selection: being the second part of his big species book written from 1856 to 1858. Edited by R. C. Stauffer. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1975.
Summary
Has TCE observed whether hybrids of Chinese and common forms [of geese] were wilder, or less tame, than both parents?
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-2164
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Thomas Campbell Eyton
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- Cadbury Research Library: Special Collections, University of Birmingham (EYT/1/42)
- Physical description
- ALS 1p
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 2164,” accessed on 29 March 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-2164.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 6