From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Marshall
Date:
9 Apr [1860]
Source of text:
DAR 146: 336
Summary:
Asks for information about Anacharis.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Asks for information about Anacharis.
Discusses feather as case of evolutionary atavism.
Will soon publish on siliceous sponges
and the skin of caterpillars.
Doubts ostrich descended from reptiles. Its ancestors true birds. Of course, all birds descended from reptiles. Compares foetus of birds to that of reptiles.
Informs CD of two distinct forms of Plantago lanceolata.
WM converted to belief in evolution by experience of museum work.
Describes protective coloration of coots’ eggs.