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From:
Darwin, W. E.
To:
Darwin, Emma
Date:
[6? July 1877]
Source of text:
DAR 210.5: 15
Summary:
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Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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Thanks CD for account of F. A. Pouchet’s experiments. Cannot yet dispute his conclusions.
Continues experiments on the colour of goldfish as affected by light and presence of plants.
Asks for CD’s "Sketch of an infant" [Collected papers 2: 191–200]. He has made observations on new-born children and mammals to determine what behaviour is inherited and what acquired.
Thanks AD-P for plates [from Arnold and Carolina Dodel-Port, Atlas der Botanik (1878–83)]. Will be useful to all who teach botany.