From:
Carl Gottfried Semper
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 Dec 1878
Source of text:
DAR 202: 120
Summary:
Asks whether he may use CD’s letters in his work [Die natürlichen Existenzbedingungen der Thiere (1880)] in order to show that Moritz Wagner has misrepresented CD’s views.
Discusses the influence of isolation and external conditions on animals, and the relative importance of the direct effect of external conditions and of selection in bringing about change.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
