From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 Oct 1876
Source of text:
DAR 104: 66–7
Summary:
JDH back from his honeymoon.
Finds he has gout, as his father and grandfather had.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Georg Karl Maria (Georg) von Seidlitz
Date:
13 Oct 1876
Source of text:
Zoologische Staatssammlung München
Summary:
CD is much obliged to receive Beiträge zur Descendenz-Theorie [1876].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Moritz Friedrich (Moritz) Wagner
Date:
13 Oct 1876
Source of text:
DAR 148: 198; LL 3: 159
Summary:
Comments on essays by MW [Das Ausland, May 1875]. Criticises his theory of isolation as source of species change: "But my strongest objection to your theory is that it does not explain the manifold adaptations in structure in every organic being". Believes MW has misunderstood his views: "I believe that all the individuals of a species can be slowly modified within the same district … I do not believe that one species will give birth to two or more new species, as long as they are mingled together within the same district."
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project