RECORD: Darwin, C. R. & Emma Darwin. n.d. Wright, On Hermaphrodite Reproduction in Chrysaora hyoscella. CUL-DAR205.5.189. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 1.2023. RN1
NOTE: See record in the Darwin Online manuscript catalogue, enter its Identifier here. Reproduced with permission of the Syndics of Cambridge University Library and William Huxley Darwin. The volume CUL-DAR205.5 contains notes on the principle of divergence, transitional organs and instincts.
T. Strethill Wright. 1861. On Hermaphrodite Reproduction in Chrysaora hyoscella. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 3, series 3: 357-9.
[189]
Annals & Mag. of Nat. Hist. (3rd Series) Vol. 7. 1861. p. 357—
Dr T. Strethill Wright states that las the Discophoræ (Medusæ) are of distinct sexes, but "large individuals of Chrysaora hyoscella are hermaphrodite; but smaller ones are found which are unisexual, the fem male or female element being suppressed, as in some dioecious plants."
Gradation
Citation: John van Wyhe, ed. 2002-. The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online. (http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
File last updated 10 March, 2023