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From:
Thomas Meehan
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Feb 1871
Source of text:
DAR 171: 108
Summary:

Sends CD some remarks he made before the Academy of Natural Sciences [Philadelphia].

TM is indebted to the Origin for first suggesting to him which observations might be useful to those working out the greater laws of nature.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Thomas Meehan
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Mar 1873
Source of text:
DAR 171: 109
Summary:

Although he believes in evolution, TM feels that natural selection is an inadequate cause;

nor is he satisfied with E. D. Cope’s law of acceleration and retardation.

Discusses some of his work relating to nutrition and sex and colour and sex.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Meehan
Date:
19 Mar [1873]
Source of text:
DAR 146: 352
Summary:

Does not understand TM’s views on sex and vitality.

Agrees no real "essences" in genera, only broken groups of species.

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From:
Thomas Meehan
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 Sept 1874
Source of text:
DAR 171: 110
Summary:

Sends CD his photo

and a copy of his address at Hartford ["Change by gradual modification not the universal law", Proc. Am. Assoc. Adv. Sci. (1874) pt 2: 7–12]. Does not believe his observations are unfavourable to natural selection but feels there are other factors involved in the origin of form.

Discusses further his work on colour and sex in plants; the linking of high colour and maleness.

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Meehan
Date:
9 Oct 1874
Source of text:
DAR 146: 353
Summary:

Doubts whether sudden and great variations often occur.

Comments on colours of flowers.

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Meehan
Date:
3 Oct 1875
Source of text:
DAR 146: 354
Summary:

Comments on review [of Insectivorous plants] in New York Independent.

Working on Cross and self-fertilisation.

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From:
Thomas Meehan
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 July 1877
Source of text:
DAR 171: 112
Summary:

Credits himself with stimulating most of the American work on plant cross-fertilisation. Sends his review of Cross and self-fertilisation [in Penn Monthly (June 1877)]. Suggests CD, A. Gray, and TM now agree on the extent of self-fertilisation in nature.

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Meehan
Date:
5 July [1877]
Source of text:
DAR 146: 355
Summary:

Thanks for review. Fears "we must agree to differ".

Health weak. Not worth TM’s time to visit.

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From:
Thomas Meehan
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 Apr [1878]
Source of text:
DAR 171: 111
Summary:

Sends CD Dr Wood’s lecture on insectivorous plants.

Had no intention of antagonising CD with his observations on Linum; was anxious to account for its apparently different behaviour.

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Meehan
Date:
13 May 1878
Source of text:
DAR 146: 356
Summary:

Criticises article by TM. "Such a manner of treating the work of other observers did not appear to me the way to encourage truth."

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project