From:
Frederic Bateman
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
31 Mar [1871]
Source of text:
DAR 160: 58
Summary:
Sends his work discussing the anatomical seat of the faculty of language [On aphasia (1870)]. Concludes that it may be impossible to find any cerebral centre for speech and that this fact opposes the idea of the descent of man from some lower form.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
