RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. Abstract of Agricola, The Mule: Factitious or mule-bred animals. CUL-DAR205.7.269. 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.
Agricola. 1839. The Mule: Factitious or mule-bred animals. The Veterinarian; a monthly journal of veterinary science 12: 307-09.
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Hybridization (Inheritance, Reversion to vigour)
Vet. 12/p. 308. Agricola. in Farmers Mag. says common mule is far longer lived than either parent, (Ch 3) competing horse at 35 years & ass at 40 — cases of mules having lived 70 years— They are freer from diseases than either parent
Citation: John van Wyhe, ed. 2002-. The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online. (http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
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