From John Addison 6 July 1868
Summary
Sends newspaper clipping about a nest of young birds, apparently hybrid offspring of a cock goldfinch and a hen green linnet.
Author: | John Addison |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 6 July 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 205.7: 279 (Letters) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6268 |
To Alphonse de Candolle 6 July 1868
Summary
Thanks AdeC for his long letter full of interesting facts, which will be of great use if a new edition [of Variation] is demanded.
As for when CD will publish on variation in a state of nature: he has had the MS almost ready for several years but Variation fatigued him so much
that "I determined to amuse myself by publishing a short essay on the Descent of Man".
AdeC will have plenty of time to publish his views. Asks permission to quote AdeC on a case of inheritance of scalp-muscles [see Descent 1: 20].
Hooker has expressed a view, similar to AdeC’s, "that morals & politics would be very interesting if discussed like any branch of Natural History".
Agrees with AdeC on acclimatisation
and on graft-hybrids.
CD is repeating Hildebrand’s method in producing graft-hybrid potatoes.
As for Pangenesis, very few people approve of it though it has some enthusiastic friends and CD has much faith in its vitality.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Alphonse de Candolle |
Date: | 6 July 1868 |
Classmark: | Archives de la famille de Candolle (private collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6269 |
letter | (2) |
Addison, John | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
Addison, John | (1) |
Candolle, Alphonse de | (1) |