From:
Elizabeth Drummond [Jr.]
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[18 January 1869]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.451
Summary:
Sends an extract from the Examiner. Would be pleased if he would acknowledge it.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
Sends an extract from the Examiner. Would be pleased if he would acknowledge it.
Replies to CD’s questions. Advice on use of term "morphology". Is much struck by CD’s idea that uniformity of an organ throughout a group implies functional inutility; the paradox of this position for classification.
No summary available.