From:
Carl Gottfried Semper
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 July 1878
Source of text:
DAR 177: 139
Summary:
Thanks CD for his kind letter and accepts his offer of a writing machine.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Thanks CD for his kind letter and accepts his offer of a writing machine.
Thanks CD for writing machine.
Recalls visit by CD’s son [Francis].
Asks whether he may use CD’s letters in his work [Die natürlichen Existenzbedingungen der Thiere (1880)] in order to show that Moritz Wagner has misrepresented CD’s views.
Discusses the influence of isolation and external conditions on animals, and the relative importance of the direct effect of external conditions and of selection in bringing about change.