From:
Charles Lawford Acland
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Aug 1870
Source of text:
DAR 159: A7
Summary:
Is studying Variation, especially Pangenesis. Reports earlier notion of Dr Robert Lee, that resemblance between husband and wife may be partly owing to her having man’s blood circulating in her during pregnancies; thus spouses most resemble each other in large families.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
