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From:
Darwin nee Wedgwood, Emma
To:
Darwin, W. E.
Date:
[winter 1877–8]
Source of text:
DAR 219.1: 102
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
No summary available.
A sheep-breeder friend has found that he can produce twins and triplets in his flock by "a sudden supply of improved feeding stuff" at time of conception. This would appear to remove the objection CD refers to in Descent that animals supplied with an excess of food become sterile.
Reprint of Origin will bring number to 19500 – so title-page may safely read "Twentieth Thousand".
Comments on GJR’s lecture on evolution.
Regrets failure of graft experiments.
Hopes GJR will not give up on Pangenesis. Mentions article by Gustav Jäger on Pangenesis.