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From:
John Ferguson McLennan
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 July 1877
Source of text:
DAR 171: 24
Summary:

Asks for details on CD’s Descent references to female infanticide.

JFM’s work on the laws of incest finds strong evidence for man’s relation to animals.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Ferguson McLennan
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
30 July 1877
Source of text:
DAR 171: 25
Summary:

Sees abortion as a refinement of infanticide; all such practices originate in female infanticide. Herbert Spencer’s over-speculation.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project