From W. D. Fox 29 October [1868]
Summary
Thanks CD for a recent letter.
Reports on his health, which has been bad for 12 months.
Sends extracts of works on domestication.
Discusses the pairing of various birds; comments on the pugnacity of partridges, pheasants, male guinea-fowl, and peacocks.
Gives proportions of sexes in pheasants.
Author: | William Darwin Fox |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 29 Oct [1868] |
Classmark: | DAR 164: 189; DAR 193: 112; DAR 83: 187, DAR 84.1: 128–30, DAR 86: A87–9 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6436 |
To T. H. Farrer 29 October [1868]
Summary
Suggests THF write a paper on violets. Asa Gray, once a sceptic, now declares he is convinced whole structure of a flower is adapted for a cross with another individual.
Urges THF not to give up Pangenesis lightly. "It has thrown light on my mind in regard [to] a great series of complex phenomena."
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer |
Date: | 29 Oct [1868] |
Classmark: | Linnean Society of London (LS Ms 299/9) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6435 |
Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
Fox, W. D. | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
Farrer, T. H. | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | |
Farrer, T. H. | (1) |
Fox, W. D. | (1) |