Thinks the German publisher would not object to publishing quotations from CD’s works, unless it was a whole chapter.
Fears the development of bird wings will prove a very difficult subject.
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Thinks the German publisher would not object to publishing quotations from CD’s works, unless it was a whole chapter.
Fears the development of bird wings will prove a very difficult subject.
Thanks RFA for extracts.
Does not believe resemblances can be produced as RFA suggests, but would not deny that a strong mental shock may cause arrest of embryonic development and thus give rise to monstrosities.
Is currently at work on the development in birds of organs of flight according to CD’s principles; asks permission to quote CD in stating the theory.
Urges CD to republish his works in a collected edition, to make them more readily available to Germans.
CD has omitted in all his works one of the most interesting causes of variation, domestic or wild – i.e., frightening of a pregnant animal; quotes case of eight-footed horse from a French translation of G. S. W. von Adler.