To E. A. Darwin 20 September 1873
Summary
Consults about the wisdom of Frank’s becoming CD’s assistant rather than practising medicine.
Outlines his finances.
[Copy in EAD’s hand.]
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
| Date: | 20 Sept 1873 |
| Classmark: | DAR 105: B1–3 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9060 |
To Nature 20 September [1873]
Summary
CD, in commenting on Wyville Thomson’s "Notes from the Challenger" [Nature 8 (1873): 347–9], recapitulates his work on rudimentary male cirripedes [Living Cirripedia], especially the complementary males attached to hermaphrodites. Offers an explanation, on evolutionary grounds, of their function and size.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Nature |
| Date: | 20 Sept [1873] |
| Classmark: | Nature, 25 September 1873, pp. 431–2 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9061 |
Document type
| letter | (2) |
Author
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
Addressee
| Darwin, E. A. | (1) |
| Nature | (1) |
Correspondent
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Darwin, E. A. | (1) |
| Nature | (1) |
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