From:
Alphonse de Candolle
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 Mar 1868
Source of text:
DAR 161: 13
Summary:
Thanks for Variation.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Thanks for Variation.
Offers notes and reflections on Variation.
Not convinced by Pangenesis, particularly its dependence on the Cytisus [graft hybrid] examples [ch. 27 and ch. 11].
What a book could be written on the application of natural history to man! Gives examples of inheritance in man.
Corrects himself on Robinia pseud-acacia: its spines are stipules, which explains hereditary fixity.
AdeC’s observations on movement of scalp muscles.