From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 Mar 1871
Source of text:
DAR 103: 63–4
Summary:
Describes plans for travel in Morocco with George Maw and John Ball.
Has not yet read Descent.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Describes plans for travel in Morocco with George Maw and John Ball.
Has not yet read Descent.
Is studying Descent.
Raises two questions for CD: on the great percentage of female illegitimate births compared with legitimate,
and on clothing as accounting for hairlessness of humans.
Bitch crossed with dog produced puppies like those of previous cross with a very different dog.
[Forwarded to CD by Robert Swinhoe.]
Offers JH the first exemplar of AQ's work [Physique sociale]. Realizes no one will ever appreciate years of work that it has taken.