To Nature 1 July [1871]1
I am much obliged to Mr. Howorth for his courteous expressions towards me in the letter in your last number.2 If he will be so good as to look at p. 111 and p. 148, vol. ii. of my “Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication,” he will find a good many facts and a discussion on the fertility and sterility of organisms from increased food and other causes. He will see my reasons for disagreeing with Mr. Doubleday, whose work I carefully read many years ago.3
Charles Darwin
Down, Beckenham, Kent, July 1
Footnotes
Bibliography
Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.
Doubleday, Thomas. 1843. The true law of population shewn to be connected with the food of the people. 2d edition. London: Effingham Wilson.
Variation: The variation of animals and plants under domestication. By Charles Darwin. 2 vols. London: John Murray. 1868.
Summary
Refers H. H. Howorth, the writer of "A new view of Darwinism" [Nature 4 (1871): 161–2], to Variation for a discussion of fertility and sterility of organisms in relation to increased food and other factors.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-7846
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Nature
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- Nature, 6 July 1871, pp. 180–1
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 7846,” accessed on 27 September 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-7846.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 19