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The experiment on the crossed Kidney Beans & on my sweet-peas & in my Pouter & Fantail pigeons & so in cattle & sheep convinces me that there is more variability in the successive generations of mongrels than in the first generation of mongrels & this is important point of resemblance between Hybrids & Mongrels

Mem. How much variability in my Hybrids from carnation and Spanish pink in 1st generation

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I have doubts whether variability any parallelism about greater variability of Hybrids in succeeding generations & ordinary generation variability, & the affection of reproductive systems is true.—

I think it does hold-constant hybrids & mongrels in the first generation alone: Why shd in the one case all the offspring be intermediate between those 2 parents, & why in others take in all sorts of degrees of both parents; except that reproductive system has been affected