From Henry Holland [10 February 1863]1
Q Anne Street2
Tuesday
My dear Charles,
After you left me yesterday I found the note, which I had sought for unsuccessfully, touching the particular form of Atavism, in alternate generations.3
It was Burdach (whose name you well know) who described this result from averages largely taken.4 My note does not go beyond this mere fact; but having the name of the observer, you will be able easily to find further information, if the point is of any value to you.
When you happen to be in Town again, let me know it, that I may have the satisfaction of talking over with you many matters of fact & thought, on this most interesting & obscure of all subjects—the hereditary transmission of physical characters, of instincts, & of mental faculties.
Ever yours affy | H Holland
Footnotes
Bibliography
Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.
Variation: The variation of animals and plants under domestication. By Charles Darwin. 2 vols. London: John Murray. 1868.
Summary
Cites [C. F.?] Burdach as the source of a note on atavism in alternate generations.
Wants to talk to CD about inheritance.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-3959
- From
- Henry Holland, 1st baronet
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- London, Queen Anne St
- Source of text
- DAR 166: 243
- Physical description
- ALS 2pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 3959,” accessed on 4 October 2023, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-3959.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 11
