From:
Hubert Airy
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 July 1872
Source of text:
DAR 159: 17
Summary:
Thanks CD for reading his MS [8412] and for his suggestions.
Clarifies his statement on the contraction of the bud-axis: did not mean to imply that this contraction occurred in an individual’s life-time, rather that it was the effect, after the course of ages, of successive favourable modifications.
Believes the true theory of phyllotaxy will give a convincing illustration and proof of the theory of evolution.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project