From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Meehan
Date:
9 Oct 1874
Source of text:
DAR 146: 353
Summary:
Doubts whether sudden and great variations often occur.
Comments on colours of flowers.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Doubts whether sudden and great variations often occur.
Comments on colours of flowers.
Sends CD his photo
and a copy of his address at Hartford ["Change by gradual modification not the universal law", Proc. Am. Assoc. Adv. Sci. (1874) pt 2: 7–12]. Does not believe his observations are unfavourable to natural selection but feels there are other factors involved in the origin of form.
Discusses further his work on colour and sex in plants; the linking of high colour and maleness.