To B. W. Savile [before 8 October 1881]
The transcript of this letter is not yet available online.
Summary
There is ‘some gradation in perfection with mammals in the mammery glands’. Discusses milk secretion in Echidna. Instances a fish in which the ova hatch in a sack on the male and the young feed on mucus secreted by the sack lining; ‘here … we see what might be the commencement of a simple mammery gland’.
Summary
There is ‘some gradation in perfection with mammals in the mammery glands’. Discusses milk secretion in Echidna. Instances a fish in which the ova hatch in a sack on the male and the young feed on mucus secreted by the sack lining; ‘here … we see what might be the commencement of a simple mammery gland’.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-13366
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Bourchier Wrey Savile
- Sent from
- unstated
- Source of text
- Record n.s. 1 (1882): 149
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 13366,” accessed on 22 May 2022, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-13366.xml
