To Virginius Dabney 20 October 1878
Summary
CD is puzzled by VD’s supposed hybrid tomato. If a hybrid, it would have to result from the "direct action of the pollen of a distinct species in the mother plant". CD believes this sort of inheritance occurs in varieties (though some botanists disagree), but not for species. Suggests "bud-variation".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Virginius Dabney |
Date: | 20 Oct 1878 |
Classmark: | University of Virginia Library, Special Collections (3314 1: 63 MSS 3082-a) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11725 |
To Virginius Dabney 3 November 1873
Summary
Thanks VD for information on caterpillars selecting food plants from within one family,
and on similar behaviour in hogs, which will not eat any plants from a family containing some poisonous members.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Virginius Dabney |
Date: | 3 Nov 1873 |
Classmark: | University of Virginia Library, Special Collections (3314 1: 56 MSS 3082-a) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9128 |
From Virginius Dabney 18 October 1873
Summary
Feeding habits of the tobacco worm; it eats only five plants, all very different, but of same botanical family.
Author: | Virginius Dabney |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 18 Oct 1873 |
Classmark: | DAR 162: 1 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9099 |
Dabney, Virginius | (2) |
Darwin, C. R. | (1) |