From:
Alphonse de Candolle
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Jan [1881]
Source of text:
DAR 161: 25
Summary:
Thanks for Movement in plants. Praises the terms CD introduces, but criticises CD’s use of the teleological word "purpose".
Outlines his efforts to study the inheritance of characters in his family. F. Galton overemphasises the inheritance of good qualities.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project