From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Nature
Date:
20 Sept [1873]
Source of text:
Nature , 25 September 1873, pp. 431–2
Summary:
CD, in commenting on Wyville Thomson’s "Notes from the Challenger" [Nature 8 (1873): 347–9], recapitulates his work on rudimentary male cirripedes [Living Cirripedia], especially the complementary males attached to hermaphrodites. Offers an explanation, on evolutionary grounds, of their function and size.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project