From:
Erasmus Alvey Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 [1877?]
Source of text:
DAR 105: B94–5
Summary:
Wants Francis [Rhodes] Darwin’s address; also asks if CD has heard "the great news".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Wants Francis [Rhodes] Darwin’s address; also asks if CD has heard "the great news".
Remarks on the difference between the sexes in Restionaceae and other subjects – occasioned by reading the introduction [to Forms of flowers].
CD has only a trifling point to make in criticism [of RLT’s excerpt from Diseases of women]: he believes "the high value of well-bred males is due to their transmitting their good qualities to a far greater number of offspring than can the female".
Thanks for new edition of Orchids.
The remarkable papers of Mott on Ernst Haeckel ["On Haeckel’s history of creation", Proc. Lit. & Philos. Soc. Liverpool 31 (1876–7): 41–89].
The part played by carbon in geological changes.