From:
Henry Nicholson Ellacombe
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
30 July [1877]
Source of text:
DAR 163: 15
Summary:
Sends a specimen of Schrankia.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Sends a specimen of Schrankia.
No summary available.
Sees abortion as a refinement of infanticide; all such practices originate in female infanticide. Herbert Spencer’s over-speculation.
Thanks CD for statement about children’s speech. Asks permission to quote him in his forthcoming book.
Makes suggestions regarding statement on potato experiments to be published in Daily News.