From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[23 Feb 1860]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 42
Summary:
Too ill to go to club.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Too ill to go to club.
Believes the British and Norwegian species of red grouse are merely strongly marked varieties of the same species.
Writes of the effect of importing a few brace of a wilder breed of grouse into Argyleshire and of their change in territory since 1846.
His explanation of game becoming "wilder": he thinks it is due to a difference in their enemies – man replacing hawks leads to flight replacing cowering.
Pleased ACR likes Origin. Every geological believer is most important. A long, stiff battle is ahead for the new doctrine.