From:
Gilbert William Child
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 May [1868]
Source of text:
DAR 161: 143
Summary:
Requests CD testimonial for Sherardian Professorship of Botany.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Requests CD testimonial for Sherardian Professorship of Botany.
Thanks CD for testimonial.
Sends 2d ed. of his Essays on physiological subjects (1869).
Criticises chapter on good effect of crossing in Variation: (1) does not accept that inbreeding alone results in degeneracy; (2) good effects of crossing exaggerated; (3) denies deleterious effects of close marriage in humans.