From:
Jean Louis Rodolphe (Louis) Agassiz
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 Sept 1863
Source of text:
DAR 159: 9
Summary:
Introduces J. P. Lesley, "the most accomplished geologist of the United States".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Introduces J. P. Lesley, "the most accomplished geologist of the United States".
LA clarifies his opposition to CD’s views, which does not blind him to the great value of CD’s original researches.
Answers CD’s questions regarding sexual coloration of Amazonian fishes and the protuberances on the head of male Geophagus and Cichla during the spawning season [see Descent, pp. 520, 529].
Introduces his son Alexander; believes CD will find him "more tractable" on certain questions than LA himself is.