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From:
Darwin, H. E.
To:
Darwin, G. H.
Date:
[August 1871]
Source of text:
DAR 245: 299
Summary:
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Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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On a "remarkable" letter from Fritz Müller [see 7820] about mimicry, protection, and sexual selection.
Discusses revising his North American Review article [see 7829] for publication as a pamphlet in England.
Plans to publish a further article on phyllotaxy.
John Lubbock’s paper [? "Remarks on stone implements from western Africa", Rep. BAAS 40 (1870): 154–5] opposes some of his best sustained conclusions.
Sends abstract of a paper on hybridity read by Edward Moore to a natural history club in Rochester, NY. Argues the necessity of hybridity on CD’s theory.
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