RECORD: Darwin, C. R. 1842.11. Does not I. St Hilaire say only races produce heterogeneous offspring. CUL-DAR205.7.238. 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-DAR205.7 contains notes on hybridism, sterility and pigeons.


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Nov. 42. — Does not. I. St Hilaire say only races produce heterogeneous offspring some like father & some like mother — but how few hybrid litters for comparison — I think some of Hunters hybrid wolves differed one from other. — In Hybrid plants there is much variation & there is little fear of foreign pollen in some cases as in Sabine Passion-flowers — Here case of two hybrids — if thought to be as only races refer to some of Koelreuter's cases — Prove similarity.


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