From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Horace Benge Dobell
Date:
6 Mar [1863]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 389
Summary:
Thanks for information [on regeneration quotation].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Thanks for information [on regeneration quotation].
The [genealogical] table seems excellent. Would be obliged for any further information about the children of the cousins – the case surprises CD.
Thanks HBD for his note. The analogy of surnames had not occurred to CD – only that of language generally, as shown so well by Lyell. Fears HBD’s argument about progression would not have much weight.
CD thinks HBD’s tables would be a considerable gain because "the importance of hereditary transmission can hardly be exaggerated from every point of view". Makes suggestions.
Asks him to send any remarkable cases of inheritance to him and, as well, any case of regrowth of amputated additional digit.