From Herbert Spencer 8 February 1868
Summary
Thanks CD for copy of Variation.
Discusses Pangenesis and considers CD’s "gemmules" comparable to his own hypothetical "physiological units" ["On alleged ""spontaneous generation"", and on the hypothesis of physiological units", appendix in The principles of biology, vol. 1 (1864)].
Author: | Herbert Spencer |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 8 Feb 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 227 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5851 |
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