To Richard Frean 22 February 1863
Summary
Glad RF approves of book [Origin].
Impossible in many cases to conjecture how structures acquired.
Comments on degeneration of civilised man.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Richard Frean |
| Date: | 22 Feb 1863 |
| Classmark: | DAR 144: 298 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4005 |
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- … 3 July [1862] . In his letter to Leonard Darwin of November 1882 (DAR 144: 298), Frean …
- … Leonard Darwin in 1882 for possible inclusion in Francis Darwin’s edition of CD’s letters ( …
- … Leonard Darwin , November 1882, in DAR 144: 298). CD’s interest in the development of mammary glands was stimulated by George Maw’s review of Origin , which, in criticising the theory of natural selection, raised the question: ‘How, for example, could mammiferous nutrition have been perfected by short stages? ’ ( [Maw] 1861 , p. 7596). In attempting to answer this point, CD referred Maw to Jeffries Wyman’s researches on gestation in Batrachians ( Wyman 1859 ), which showed the ‘ possibility of such a transition’ ( Correspondence vol. 9, letter …
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| Frean, Richard | (1) |
