From Edward Blyth 8 January [1856]
Summary
Encloses "notes for Mr. D" [see 1818] and a memorandum on the wild cattle of southern India [see 1819].
Breeds of silky fowl of China and Malaya. Black-skinned fowl.
Doubts any breed of canary has siskin blood; all remain true to their type.
Wild canary and finch hybrids.
Hybrids between one- and two-humped camels.
Does not regard zebra markings on asses as an indication of interbreeding but as one of the many instances of markings in the young which more or less disappear in the adult.
Crossing of Coracias species at the edges of their ranges.
Regional variations and intergrading between species of pigeons.
Regards the differences in Treron as specific [see Natural selection, p. 115 n. 1].
Gives other instances of representative species or races differing only in certain details of colouring.
| Author: | Edward Blyth |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 8 Jan [1856] |
| Classmark: | DAR 98: A110–13, A117–21 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1817 |
To W. D. Fox 8 [June 1856]
Summary
The responses to his queries on domestic variations are coming in from all over; believes he will make an interesting collection. At present concerned with rabbits and ducks.
Has told Lyell of his views on species and CL urges CD to publish a preliminary essay. Has begun to work on it, with fear and trembling at its inadequacies.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
| Date: | 8 [June 1856] |
| Classmark: | University of British Columbia Library, Rare Books and Special Collections (Pearce/Darwin Fox collection RBSC-ARC-1721-1-10) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1895 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … rabbits in Variation 1: 115–24. These breeds are discussed in Variation 1: 276–7. Charles Lyell and his wife had visited Down from 13 to 16 April 1856. See letter from Charles Lyell, 1–2 May 1856 , and letter to Charles Lyell, 3 May [1856] . The manuscript of the first two chapters of CD’s species book, composed in 1856 and dealing with ‘Variation under domestication’, is not extant. CD later used much of the material, and perhaps the manuscript itself, in compiling Variation . In Variation 2: 329, after making the statement that ‘white …
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| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
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| Fox, W. D. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Blyth, Edward | (1) |
| Fox, W. D. | (1) |
