To Librarian, Royal Society of London 27 October [1856]
Summary
Orders Andrew Knight’s paper ["An account of some experiments on the fecundation of vegetables", Philos. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. (1799): 195–204] and J. E. Gray’s book [Gleanings from the menagerie and aviary at Knowsley Hall (1846)].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Royal Society of London |
| Date: | 27 Oct [1856] |
| Classmark: | University of Michigan Library, Special Collections Research Center (Science and Philosophy Collection, gift of J. Christian Bay) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1013 |
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- … letter was originally published in vol. 3 of the Correspondence with the conjectured date 27 Oct [1846 or 1848? ]. Knight 1799 . This and other works by Thomas Andrew Knight were frequently cited by CD in Natural selection , Origin , Variation , and his botanical works. J. E. Gray 1846 . Cited in Natural selection and Variation . Edward Smith Stanley , …
From John Henry Gurney 2 July 1856
Summary
Hybrids of Phasianus versicolor breed freely between themselves as well as with common pheasants. Has been assured that hybrids between mallards and pintails are sometimes fertile inter se.
| Author: | John Henry Gurney |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 2 July 1856 |
| Classmark: | DAR 165: 259 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1916 |
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- … Edward Smith Stanley , Earl of Derby, had established a private menagerie at Knowsley Hall, Lancashire. The fertility of offspring of Phasianus versicolor crossed with P. colchicus is discussed in Natural selection , pp. 438, 440. In Natural selection , p. 439, CD cited two cases of a hybrid between the mallard and pintail: the first was a specimen exhibited by Twiselton Fiennes (see CD’s annotations, above) at a meeting of the Zoological Society on 13 December 1831 ( Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London pt 1 (1830–1): 158); the second was mentioned in a letter …
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| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Gurney, J. H. | (1) |
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| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Royal Society of London | (1) |
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| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Gurney, J. H. | (1) |
| Royal Society of London | (1) |
