From E. L. Layard [September–October 1856]
Summary
Preference of stallions for hybrid mares.
| Author: | Edgar Leopold Layard |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [Sept–Oct 1856] |
| Classmark: | DAR 83: 185–6 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1897 |
Matches: 1 hit
To Walter Baldock Durrant Mantell 3 April [1856]
Summary
Reminds WBDM of his promise of information about the quartz boulders and an iceberg with fragment of rock seen in southern ocean.
Sends other questions [on separate sheet (missing)] which WBDM will think ridiculous, but all bear on plants and animals under domestication.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Walter Baldock Durrant Mantell |
| Date: | 3 Apr [1856] |
| Classmark: | Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand (Mantell papers, MS-Papers-0083-268) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1848 |
Matches: 1 hit
From Thomas Hutton 8 March 1856
Summary
TH believes that the progeny of hybrid crosses, in which a domesticated or "artificial" race is involved, tend to resemble the more "natural" of their parents [see Natural selection, p. 486].
Provides some information on local hybrid domestic geese [see Natural selection, p. 439] and pigeons.
| Author: | Thomas Hutton |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 8 Mar 1856 |
| Classmark: | DAR 166: 283 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1838 |
Matches: 1 hit
To W. B. Tegetmeier 14 January [1856]
Summary
Is attempting to get skins of poultry from all quarters of the world. Wants to inspect poultry collections.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
| Date: | 14 Jan [1856] |
| Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1820 |
Matches: 1 hit
Document type
| letter | (4) |
Author
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Hutton, Thomas | (1) |
| Layard, E. L. | (1) |
Addressee
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Mantell, W. B. D. | (1) |
| Tegetmeier, W. B. | (1) |
Correspondent
| Darwin, C. R. | (4) |
| Hutton, Thomas | (1) |
| Layard, E. L. | (1) |
| Mantell, W. B. D. | (1) |
| Tegetmeier, W. B. | (1) |
