From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Henry Lewes
Date:
28 July [1868]
Source of text:
DAR 185: 41
Summary:
Thanks GHL for his support of Pangenesis.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Thanks GHL for his support of Pangenesis.
Arranges to call on GHL.
Will propose GHL for the Linnean Society.
Writes of his objections to GHL’s views.
Considers Weismann’s remarks on the importance of the nature of the organism as well as conditions of life in determining variability have much truth.
Thinks GHL’s articles are quite excellent; hopes they will be republished.
Discusses adaptation. Doubts whether similar conditions without selection can produce similar organs independent of blood relationship: "resemblances due to descent and adaptation can commonly be distinguished".
Discusses luminous insects, electrical organs of fish, thorns and spines.