See how important in another way this conclusion is; for no one can doubt that large and small dogs are perfectly fertile together, and produce fertile mongrels; and how well this supports the Pallasian doctrine (299/4.

See Letter 80.) that domestication eliminates the sterility almost universal between forms slowly developed in a state of nature.
I humbly beg your pardon for bothering you with so long a note; but it is your own fault.
Plants are splendid for making one believe in Natural Selection, as will and consciousness are excluded.

I have lately been experimenting on such a curious structure for bursting open the seed-coats: I declare one might as well say that a pair of scissors or nutcrackers had been developed through external conditions as the structure in question.
(299/5.

The peg or heel in Cucurbita: see "Power of Movement in Plants" page 102.) LETTER 300.

TO T.H.HUXLEY.