From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[3 Mar 1868]
Source of text:
DAR 102: 204–7
Summary:
Now quite understands Pangenesis. Satisfaction given by it, as CD says, may depend on one’s mental constitution. In all cases of descent JDH has always thought "all the properties of the parents are transmitted in the one cell and were diffused to every part of the future offspring".
Tyndall believes he feels atoms as firmly as St Paul believed he saw Christ.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
