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DCP-LETT-11466

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George John Romanes
Date:
9 Apr [1878]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.533)
Summary:

Sympathises with GJR on dreadful loss [of his sister, Georgina].

Can GJR visit Down?

Onions not yet up.

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Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11467

From:
Thomas Travers Sherlock
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Apr 1878
Source of text:
DAR 177: 157
Summary:

Encloses some notes on Descent [2d ed.]. Discusses CD’s contention [p. 130] that natural selection could not act to increase altruistic behaviour in man; considers that the benefits conferred upon a person exhibiting such virtues would outweigh the threat to survival that such behaviour would pose.

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