From Henry Reeks 3 March 1873
Summary
Praise for and detailed comments on Expression.
Two cases of coloration in animals – one from sexual selection, the other helping to procure prey [see Descent, 2d ed., pp. 542–3].
| Author: | Henry Stephen (Henry) Reeks |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 3 Mar 1873 |
| Classmark: | DAR 88: 105 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8703 |
To Agnes Haeckel [before 3 March 1873]
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Agnes Huschke; Agnes Haeckel |
| Date: | [before 3 Mar 1873] |
| Classmark: | Ernst-Haeckel-Haus (Bestand A [34831]) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8703F |
From Thomas Meehan 3 March 1873
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.
| Author: | Thomas Meehan |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 3 Mar 1873 |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 109 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8796 |
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| letter | (3) |
Author
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Meehan, Thomas | (1) |
| Reeks, Henry | (1) |
Addressee
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Haeckel, Agnes | (1) |
| Huschke, Agnes | (1) |
Correspondent
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
| Haeckel, Agnes | (1) |
| Huschke, Agnes | (1) |
| Meehan, Thomas | (1) |
| Reeks, Henry | (1) |
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