From Thomas Meehan 3 March 1873

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Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 21.

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-8796,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 28 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-8796

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.

Letter details

Record number: DCP-LETT-8796
From: Thomas Meehan
To: Charles Robert Darwin
Date: 3 Mar 1873
Sent from: Gardeners’ Monthly , Germantown, Pa.
Source of text: DAR 171: 109
Physical description: 4pp

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Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 21.