To G. H. K. Thwaites 29 December 1868
Summary
Discusses experiments in breeding fowls.
Comments on letter from S. O. Glenie [see 6440] concerning the eyes of trumpeting elephants.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George Henry Kendrick Thwaites |
| Date: | 29 Dec 1868 |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.358) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6514 |
To J. D. Hooker 29 December 1868
Summary
JDH’s letter invaluable for an answer to Nägeli’s essay [Entstehung und Begriff der Naturhistorischen Art (1865)].
Has gone through his index to Gardeners’ Chronicle but finds little of use to JDH for his Flora.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 29 Dec 1868 |
| Classmark: | DAR 94: 108—9 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6515 |
From William Alexander Wooler 29 December 1868
Summary
Observations that confirm CD’s deduction that half-bred Persian cats are fruitful one with another. Relates case of Persian characters reappearing in the offspring of a common cat which was the descendant of a half-bred Persian.
| Author: | William Alexander Wooler |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 29 Dec 1868 |
| Classmark: | DAR 181: 159 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6516 |
Document type
| letter | (3) |
Author
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Wooler, W. A. | (1) |
Addressee
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
| Thwaites, G. H. K. | (1) |
Correspondent
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
| Thwaites, G. H. K. | (1) |
| Wooler, W. A. | (1) |
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