To George Busk, Linnean Society1 30 March [1858]2
Down Bromley Kent
March 30th
Dear Sir
I can have no hesitation in expressing my strong opinion that the whole of Mr. Huxley’s admirable paper on the Agamic Reproduction & Embryology of Aphis, together with all the illustrations, ought to be published in the Transactions of the Linnean Society.3
Dear Sir | Yours faithfully | Ch. Darwin To | G. Busk Ere | Secretary Linnean Socy.—
Footnotes
Bibliography
Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.
Summary
Expresses his strong opinion that Huxley’s paper ["Agamic reproduction and morphology of Aphis", Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. 22 (1858): 193–220, 221–36] should be published.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-2247
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- George Busk; Linnean Society
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- Linnean Society of London (SP.585c)
- Physical description
- ALS 1p
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 2247,” accessed on
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 7
