From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Víctor López-Seoane
Date:
27 Dec 1881
Source of text:
Instituto de Estudios Coruñeses José Cornide
Summary:
CD is unable to give the desired information relating to embryology of the Vertebrata. He advises the procuring of F. M. Balfour’s Comparative embryology, in two volumes [1880–1], which he believes to be the most valuable biological work in many years.
Hopes to find time to read VLS’s essays.
Discussion of the problem of naming species. [See 13568.]
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
