From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Stephen Bennet François de Chaumont
Date:
3 Feb [1873]
Source of text:
Wellcome Collection (RAMC/474/2); Trustees of the Army Medical Services Museum
Summary:
Thanks for J. D. MacDonald’s paper ["Distribution of invertebrata", Proc. R. Soc. Lond. 21 (1872–3): 218–23].
CD feels lines of genetic connection between animals offer a most difficult problem; Ernst Haeckel may have done mischief by facing the difficulty.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project