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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
1 Feb [1871]
Source of text:
DAR 94: 188–9
Summary:

Returns pamphlets.

B. T. Lowne’s observation [Mon. Microsc. J. 4 (1870): 326–30] that boiling does not kill certain moulds is curious, but then how account for absence of all living things in Pasteur’s experiment?

Always delighted to see a word in favour of Pangenesis.

Thiselton-Dyer’s paper ["On spontaneous generation and evolution", Q. J. Microsc. Sci. 10 (1870): 333–54] is Spencerian.

The chemical conditions for first production of life are said to exist at present, but in some warm little pond today such matter would be absorbed or devoured, which would not have been the case before living creatures were formed.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles-Ferdinand Reinwald
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Feb 1871
Source of text:
DAR 176: 93
Summary:

Has left Paris because of the war.

J. J. Moulinié and Carl Vogt are at work on Descent, which CR plans to publish in Paris.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Winwood Reade
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Feb 1871
Source of text:
DAR 176: 45
Summary:

Sir Andrew Smith says Hottentots and Kaffirs laugh till they cry.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project