Letter 2247
Darwin, C. R. to Busk, George & Linnean Society of London & under secretary
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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.
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Down Bromley Kent
March 30
Dear Sir
I can have no hesitation in expressing my strong opinion that the whole of M
Dear Sir | Yours faithfully | Ch. Darwin
To | G. Busk E
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George Busk was the under-secretary of the Linnean Society in 1858. - +
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Dated by the reference to T. H. Huxley 1858 (see n. 3, below). - +
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Thomas Henry Huxley had read the first part of a paper on parthenogenesis in aphids at a meeting of the Linnean Society on 5 November 1857 (see Correspondence vol. 6, letter to T. H. Huxley, [before 12 November 1857]). The second part, a detailed anatomical study of embryogenesis in aphids, had been read at a meeting on 21 January 1858. The paper was published in the society's Transactions (T. H. Huxley 1858).