To G. H. Lewes 7 August [1868]
The transcript of this letter is not yet available online.
Summary
Thinks GHL’s articles are quite excellent; hopes they will be republished.
Discusses adaptation. Doubts whether similar conditions without selection can produce similar organs independent of blood relationship: "resemblances due to descent and adaptation can commonly be distinguished".
Discusses luminous insects, electrical organs of fish, thorns and spines.
Summary
Thinks GHL’s articles are quite excellent; hopes they will be republished.
Discusses adaptation. Doubts whether similar conditions without selection can produce similar organs independent of blood relationship: "resemblances due to descent and adaptation can commonly be distinguished".
Discusses luminous insects, electrical organs of fish, thorns and spines.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-6308
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- George Henry Lewes
- Sent from
- Freshwater
- Source of text
- DAR 185: 42; Argyll Papers (NRAS 1209/985)
- Physical description
- 3pp, encl
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 6308,” accessed on 3 March 2021, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/DCP-LETT-6308.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 16
