From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Jan 1880
Source of text:
DAR 165: 201
Summary:
Sends some cotton seeds for CD.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Sends some cotton seeds for CD.
Plans a "Darwin Festival" to celebrate CD’s birthday.
"I am much obliged for your note. I have heard of the other analogous cases, but there remains a doubt whether they may not be accidental coincidences, for such cases certainly occur in non-Jewish families.––"
Suggests CEF read Ernst Haeckel’s Evolution of man [1879] and Descent.
No summary available.