From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
28 Feb [1868]
Source of text:
DAR 94: 55–7c
Summary:
Does not understand JDH on Pangenesis: on last page he appears to admit all that he regards as mere words on previous pages.
Wallace admires chapter on Pangenesis.
Pangenesis is a comfort. CD gains no idea from words like "potentiality" or "diffusing an influence"; atoms and cells give a distinct idea.
A. Newton told George that Berthold Seemann wrote the Athenæum review
and that Lewis [Lewes] did not write the Pall Mall Gazette review [see 5874].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project