From:
John Traherne Moggridge
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Feb 1873
Source of text:
DAR 171: 217
Summary:
He does not accept Wallace’s definition of instinct because it excludes "inherited experience", i.e., "knowledge acquired by and transmitted through ancestors".
House-flies do not seem to have an instinctive fear of trap-door spiders.
Miss Forster gives him news of CD.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project