Interested to hear about the peas.
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The Darwin Correspondence Project is publishing letters written by and to the naturalist Charles Darwin (1809–1882). Complete transcripts of letters are being made available through the Project’s website (www.darwinproject.ac.uk) after publication in the ongoing print edition of The Correspondence of Charles Darwin (Cambridge University Press 1985–). Metadata and summaries of all known letters (c. 15,000) appear in Ɛpsilon, and the full texts of available letters can also be searched, with links to the full texts.
Interested to hear about the peas.
Thinks CD’s case of twins with crooked fingers may be one from his twin study.
Sends a lecture CD wished to see
and corrects himself about the twins.
Outlines a memoir he will give at the Anthropological Society in which he differs theoretically with Pangenesis.
Sends a proof of his "Theory of heredity" from the Contemporary Review [27 (1875): 80–95; revised in J. Anthropol. Inst. 5 (1876): 329–48]. Welcomes CD’s help and criticism.
Responds to suggestions and criticisms CD made to "theory of heredity" [see 10245].
Thanks for the peas which arrived in "beautiful order".
Outlines in simple form the statistical distribution of inherited characteristics in a theory of "organic units".
Gives further explanations of his theory of stirps and his objections to Pangenesis, in answer to a question of CD’s.
Is sending some seeds of sweetpeas, which George [Darwin] said CD would plant for him.