From:
William Rathbone Greg
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 Mar [1871?]
Source of text:
DAR 87: 149–50
Summary:
Quotes authority on the decline in height of French army recruits.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Quotes authority on the decline in height of French army recruits.
Comments on various points in Descent: proportion of sexes, moral sentiments in animals, etc. Encloses "packet of data" [missing].
Thanks CD for thinking of his speculation.
Has made a note of the paper mentioned by CD.
Discusses a chapter on design, written by WRG’s son [Percy Greg, The devil’s advocate (1878)]. Comments on the younger Greg’s criticisms of natural selection and evolution.
Comments on WRG’s MS on ratio of the sexes at birth.
Offers to send J. M. A. Thury’s paper ["Loi de production des sexes", Arch. Sci. Phys. & Nat. 18 (1863): 91–8].