From Richard Hill 12 March 1857
Summary
Comments on transport of ducks to Jamaica by hurricanes,
fish feeding on seeds,
and sterility of birds in captivity.
| Author: | Richard Hill |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 12 Mar 1857 |
| Classmark: | DAR 205.2: 238 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2064 |
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Correlation of growth: deaf blue-eyed cats, pigs, and poison
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As he was first developing his ideas, among the potential problems Darwin recognised with natural selection was how to account for developmental change that conferred no apparent advantage. He proposed a ‘mysterious law’ of ‘correlation of growth’ where…
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Darwin’s reading notebooks
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In April 1838, Darwin began recording the titles of books he had read and the books he wished to read in Notebook C (Notebooks, pp. 319–28). In 1839, these lists were copied and continued in separate notebooks. The first of these reading notebooks (DAR 119…
