From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
[9 Nov] 1873 or [26 Apr or 6 Dec] 1874
Source of text:
Wellcome Collection (MS.7781/1–32 item 30)
Summary:
Arranges a visit to CL.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Arranges a visit to CL.
Has heard from Ashwin Conway Newman of Guy’s Hospital of a case of a child without any prepuce whose father was a renegade, uncircumcised Jew, but whose ancestors had all been Jews. Newman thinks this a good case of inheritance with reversion. JP’s letter [missing] now shows how rash such a conclusion would be.
Thanks for J. D. MacDonald’s paper ["Distribution of invertebrata", Proc. R. Soc. Lond. 21 (1872–3): 218–23].
CD feels lines of genetic connection between animals offer a most difficult problem; Ernst Haeckel may have done mischief by facing the difficulty.
Thanks FdeC for his note and invites criticisms.