From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
26 Mar [1861]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.242)
Summary:
Thanks correspondent for book on old bones.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Thanks correspondent for book on old bones.
Comments on the great extent of variations and on the acknowledgment of the new idea of greater female variety.
Expresses belief that the glacial period did affect the tropics, though HWB’s arguments have confounded him.
Poses a series of questions concerning sexual selection.
Henslow is dying.