To T. H. Huxley [before 12 November 1857]
Summary
Glad THH has taken up aphid question versus Owen ["On the agamic reproduction and morphology of Aphis", Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. 22 (1858): 193–236].
Fertilisation and inheritance discussed. Speculates that fertilisation may be a mixture rather than a fusion. Can understand in no other way why crossed forms tend to go back to ancestral forms.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
| Date: | [before 12 Nov 1857] |
| Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 58) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2166 |
To Robert Patterson 12 November [1857]
Summary
The [Irish] rabbits arrived safely. "They shall be skeletonized." CD now has rabbits from Shetland, Madeira and Ireland; hopes to receive one from Jamaica.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Robert Patterson |
| Date: | 12 Nov [1857] |
| Classmark: | W. E. Praeger 1935, p. 714 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2168 |
To Gardeners’ Chronicle [before 12 November 1857]
Summary
Asks writer of an article on weeds why he supposes "there is too much reason to believe that foreign seed of an indigenous species is often more prolific than that grown at home?" The point is of interest to CD "in regard to the great battle of life which is perpetually going on all around us". Cites analogous observations by Asa Gray and J. D. Hooker. Does writer know "of any other analogous cases of a weed introduced from another land beating out … a weed previously common in any particular field or farm?"
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Gardeners’ Chronicle |
| Date: | [before 12 Nov 1857] |
| Classmark: | Gardeners’ Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette, 14 November 1857, p. 779 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2169 |
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
| Gardeners’ Chronicle | (1) |
| Huxley, T. H. | (1) |
| Patterson, Robert | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | |
| Gardeners’ Chronicle | (1) |
| Huxley, T. H. | (1) |
| Patterson, Robert | (1) |
