From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Gustav Jäger
Date:
23 Oct 1876
Source of text:
Frau Dr Hildegard Jaeger (private collection)
Summary:
Thanks for a copy of GJ’s Zoologische Briefe (Jäger 1876).
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Thanks for a copy of GJ’s Zoologische Briefe (Jäger 1876).
Admires GJ’s book [Die Darwin’sche Theorie (1869)].
Asks about plumage of rejected male pheasant.
Encloses his letter to GJ [6885], which was returned.
Comments on GJ’s book [In Sachen Darwins ins-besondere contra Wigand (1874)]. Not convinced that there are species which are fixed or variable independently of the conditions to which they are subjected.