From W. R. Grove to Charles Lyell 2 July 1871
July 2d 1871
Dear Lyell
I forgot while you were with me to day to submit a problem in Darwinism to you If you can get C Darwin to answer it I shall be glad To what far distant origin can the configuration of the skin surface at the last points of the fingers & toes be traced I enclose 3 impressions of my fingers which will explain what I mean look at the symmetrical but different curves on each of them What in the history of the species genus order &c does it come from1
Ever yrs W R Grove
Footnotes
Summary
Asks Lyell to put a question to CD: "To what far distant origin can the configuration of the skin surface [the symmetrical but different curves] at the last points of the fingers and toes be traced?"
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-7847
- From
- William Robert Grove
- To
- Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
- Sent from
- unstated
- Source of text
- DAR 165: 235
- Physical description
- ALS 2pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 7847,” accessed on 16 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-7847.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 19
