From A. R. Wallace 13 December 1876
The transcript of this letter is not yet available online.
Summary
Responds to CD’s new work [Cross and self-fertilisation]. Suggests results might have been more convincing if CD had measured weights instead of heights. The fact that infertile hybrids have not been produced means that the "one great objection" has not been got rid of: the physiological characteristic of species. Suggests an experiment to produce "sterile mongrels" which would remove objection.
Summary
Responds to CD’s new work [Cross and self-fertilisation]. Suggests results might have been more convincing if CD had measured weights instead of heights. The fact that infertile hybrids have not been produced means that the "one great objection" has not been got rid of: the physiological characteristic of species. Suggests an experiment to produce "sterile mongrels" which would remove objection.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-10717
- From
- Alfred Russel Wallace
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- Dorking
- Source of text
- DAR 106: B130–1
- Physical description
- 4pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 10717,” accessed on 15 December 2019, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/DCP-LETT-10717.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 24
