From Edward Hewitt 18 December 1857
Summary
Hybrid varieties of pheasant and common fowl. Reply to CD queries.
| Author: | Edward Hewitt |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 18 Dec 1857 |
| Classmark: | DAR 166: 196 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1614 |
To George Bentham 18 December [1857]
Summary
Thanks GB for his answers [to 2184], which were as explicit as he expected. Cucubalus viscosus and italicus are extremely sterile together; all other forms extremely fertile. Other instances of infertility found by Gärtner.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George Bentham |
| Date: | 18 Dec [1857] |
| Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Bentham Correspondence, Vol. 3, Daintree–Dyer, 1830–1884, GEB/1/3: f. 700a) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2189 |
Document type
| letter | (2) |
Author
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Hewitt, Edward | (1) |
Addressee
| Bentham, George | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
Correspondent
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Bentham, George | (1) |
| Hewitt, Edward | (1) |
