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.
Had hoped to attend ES's soiree, but has influenza. Praises ES's report on Mr. McClintock's magnetic observations at Port Barrow.