From George Rolleston 16 April 1861
Oxford.
April 16. 1861.
My dear Sir—
I write a single line to say that I do not see in your Index to the “Origin of Species” any reference to the point of the “Variability of Rudimentary organs”— This point you touch upon in Pages 149 & 168. And it may be illustrated in the concrete from Leuckart in the Cyclopædia of Anatomy Article “Vesicula Prostatica” p. 1424,1 & from Leydig Zeitschrift Wiss. Zoologie ⟨ ⟩.1.38. ‘a propos of the same structure—2
Yours very Truly | George Rolleston—
CD annotations
Footnotes
Bibliography
Descent: The descent of man, and selection in relation to sex. By Charles Darwin. 2 vols. London: John Murray. 1871.
Leuckart, Rudolf. 1852. Vesicula prostatica. In vol. 4 of The cyclopaedia of anatomy and physiology, edited by Robert Bentley Todd. London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans.
Leydig, Franz. 1850. Zur Anatomie der männlichen Geschlechtsorgane und Analdrüsen der Säugethiere. Zeitschrift für wissenschaftliche Zoologie 2: 1–57.
Summary
Index of Origin does not refer to variability of rudimentary organs mentioned at pp. 149, 168. Offers references to Rudolf Leuckart and to Franz von Leydig to support CD’s point.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-3120
- From
- George Rolleston
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- Oxford
- Source of text
- DAR 176: 206
- Physical description
- ALS 1p †
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 3120,” accessed on 1 September 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-3120.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 9