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To Thomas Rivers 1 February [1863]
Summary
Answers TR’s query about stomata.
CD will use "weeping trees" as an example of how inexplicable the laws of inheritance are, and asks for facts on character of seedlings.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Rivers |
| Date: | 1 Feb [1863] |
| Classmark: | Sotheby’s (dealers) (23–4 July 1987) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3962 |
To Thomas Rivers [14 February 1863]
Summary
Delighted by curious case of inheritance in the weeping ash [cited in missing letter from TR] "which produced weeping seedlings and itself lost the weeping peculiarity!" Wishes he could get authentic information on the weeping elm.
What TR says of seedlings conquering each other well illustrates struggle for existence and natural selection.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Rivers |
| Date: | [14 Feb 1863] |
| Classmark: | 19th Century Shop (dealers) (catalogue 5, 1988) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3982 |
Author
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
Correspondent
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Rivers, Thomas | (2) |
