From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Henry Lewes
Date:
28 July [1868]
Source of text:
DAR 185: 41
Summary:
Thanks GHL for his support of Pangenesis.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Henry Lewes
Date:
7 Aug [1868]
Source of text:
DAR 185: 42; Argyll Papers, Inveraray Castle (NRAS 1209/985)
Summary:
Thinks GHL’s articles are quite excellent; hopes they will be republished.
Discusses adaptation. Doubts whether similar conditions without selection can produce similar organs independent of blood relationship: "resemblances due to descent and adaptation can commonly be distinguished".
Discusses luminous insects, electrical organs of fish, thorns and spines.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Henry Lewes
Date:
[13 Nov 1868]
Source of text:
DAR 185: 43
Summary:
Arranges to call on GHL.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Henry Lewes
Date:
18 Nov 1868
Source of text:
DAR 185: 44, 56
Summary:
Will propose GHL for the Linnean Society.
Writes of his objections to GHL’s views.
Considers Weismann’s remarks on the importance of the nature of the organism as well as conditions of life in determining variability have much truth.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Henry Lewes
Date:
18 Apr 1877
Source of text:
DAR 185: 45
Summary:
Thanks GHL for a copy of his Physical basis of mind [1877].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
