From:
Archibald McNeill
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 Jan 1869
Source of text:
DAR 83: 175–6
Summary:
Answer to CD’s query as to whether horns on deer are for use or ornament. [See Descent 2: 252–3.]
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Answer to CD’s query as to whether horns on deer are for use or ornament. [See Descent 2: 252–3.]
Sends a paper on reproductive modes of Leptodera ["Organisation und Fortpflanzen von Leptodera", Schr. Ges. Beförd. Naturw. Marburg (1869)].
Criticises Ernst Haeckel’s work as too unripe and enthusiastic.
Asks CD for some specimens of cirripedes in pupal stage for a work in progress.