From:
William Bennett
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 Apr 1864
Source of text:
DAR 160: 146
Summary:
Will send grasses CD asked about.
Reports observations on brood of Australian chicks he is hatching.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Will send grasses CD asked about.
Reports observations on brood of Australian chicks he is hatching.
On rereading the Origin, offers a criticism on two grounds: 1. Blending inheritance; 2. The tendency of species to elude competing species. Also competition within species eliminates the weak and thus preserves the species.
Recalls being introduced to CD when [undergraduate] at Cambridge.
Sends CD some of his pamphlets
and expresses support of Origin.
Has discovered there are "3 sexes" in the solitary Cynips as well as social insects.