Darwin-Hooker Letters : Letter from J. D. Hooker to C. R. Darwin [23 March 1862]
Hooker, Joseph Dalton
Darwin-Hooker Letters
<p style='text-align: justify;'>Lighthearted thoughts on "the development of an Aristocracy" after a visit to Walcot Hall, Shropshire.</p><p style='text-align: justify;'>On CD’s point about the effect of changed conditions on the reproductive organs, JDH does not see why this is not "itself a variation, not necessarily induced by domestication, but accompanying some variety artificially selected".</p>