To W. D. Fox 7 May [1855]
Summary
William Yarrell has assured him that call ducks cross freely with common varieties. CD would like a seven-day duckling and an old one that dies a natural death.
CD is depressed – all his experiments are going wrong, "all nature is perverse and will not do as I wish it". Feels he is getting out of his depth.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
| Date: | 7 May [1855] |
| Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 90) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1678 |
To W. D. Fox 17 May [1855]
Summary
Asks WDF to induce schoolboys to collect eggs of lizards and snakes for him. He will see whether they float and stay alive on sea-water.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
| Date: | 17 May [1855] |
| Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 91) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1683 |
To W. D. Fox 23 May [1855]
Summary
He may insert his request for lizards’ eggs in Gardeners’ Chronicle.
His study of mongrel chicks is to ascertain whether the young of domestic breeds differ as much as their parents.
Has already sent a communication on means of distribution of plants by sea to Gardeners’ Chronicle [Collected papers 1: 255–8].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
| Date: | 23 May [1855] |
| Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 92) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1686 |
| letter | (3) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
| Fox, W. D. | (3) |
