From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[28 Mar 1868]
Source of text:
Wellcome Collection (MS.7781/1–32 item 21)
Summary:
Defers visit [to Kew] because of ill health.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Defers visit [to Kew] because of ill health.
Thanks for criticism of his paper [on Variation].
If external conditions induce variability, what is the internal cause?
Does not agree with Duke of Argyll that "Origin of Species" is an incorrect term.
Sees playfulness of animals as a mark of the Deity’s creative playfulness.
Will visit soon.
On the proportion of sexes in moths; Lepidoptera females command higher prices; quotes Staudinger’s catalogue [see Descent 1: 311–12].
Ticking of Anobium tessellatum [see Descent 1: 385].
On various subjects related to sexual selection: preferences, proportion of sexes. [See Descent 2: 117–18, 122.]
Recognition of colour by animals.
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