From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
[1878?]
Source of text:
DAR 211: 21
Summary:
Forwards an unspecified work for FD to read.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Forwards an unspecified work for FD to read.
Regrets he was not at home when HDG called.
HDG’s observations on the evolution of the human ear are well worth consideration.
Can the correspondent get some pamphlets written by [K. G. W. Stenzel?].
Pleased EH is translating Forms of flowers. Agrees "cowslip" and "oxlip" ought to be translated by their scientific names.
Good article by Fritz Müller in Kosmos supporting August Weismann’s views on caterpillars.
Thanks HM for his review [of Forms of flowers, Kosmos 2 (1877–8): 286].
Thinks HM’s previous article was very important [Kosmos 2 (1877–8): 128–40]. CD will "heartily rejoice" if HM has explained the steps by which Rhamnus and Valeriana have been rendered dioecious.