To [W. E. Darwin]1 [1857?]2
Will you tell Mr Linton,3 that I am sorry to have troubled him with so many messages; but I had always thought that canaries & goldfinches, when paired, produced fewer young-birds than the pure parents; & I was particularly curious to know the cause of this.— I am sure that fewness of young is generally the rule, as in common mule from Horse & ass,—& from pheasant & Fowl.— But I shall be very much obliged for any facts about the eggs either of hybrids or of first crosses.—4
Footnotes
Summary
Will be grateful for facts from Mr Linton on numbers of eggs from goldfinch–canary crosses.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-2029
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- William Erasmus Darwin
- Sent from
- unstated
- Source of text
- DAR 210.6: 187
- Physical description
- AL 2pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 2029,” accessed on 27 March 2023, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-2029.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 13 (Supplement)