To G. E. Dobson 25 May [1874]
Down, | Beckenham, Kent.
May 25
Dear Sir
I am much obliged for your kind note & paper. I read long ago with great interest your paper in the Proc. Z. Soc., & have corrected my blunders in a new Edit. of the Descent now prepared.1 It is some excuse for me that I found well-instructed mammalogists, as ignorant as myself.— I daresay I do not fully see the point, but there seems to me nothing strange in Geckos, inhabiting a forest-clad land, having suckers & no claws to their feet, for, if I remember rightly Hylæ have no claws.—2
Dear Sir | Yours faithfully & obliged | Ch. Darwin
Footnotes
Bibliography
Descent 2d ed.: The descent of man, and selection in relation to sex. By Charles Darwin. 2d edition. London: John Murray. 1874.
Descent: The descent of man, and selection in relation to sex. By Charles Darwin. 2 vols. London: John Murray. 1871.
Dobson, G. E. 1873. On secondary sexual characters in the Chiroptera. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London (1873): 241–52.
Summary
Thanks for note and paper ["Secondary sexual characters in Cheiroptera", Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. (1873): 241–52].
Has corrected error in new edition of Descent [1874].
Sees nothing strange in geckos inhabiting frost-clad land and having no claws.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-9467
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- Charles Robert Darwin
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- George Edward Dobson
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- American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
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Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 22
