From Federico Delpino 28 February 1870
Summary
Transformism explains rudimentary organs, and teratology, which are otherwise inexplicable.
Looking forward to publication of Descent
and CD’s expected book on "Variation in nature" [see Variation 1: 4].
| Author: | Federico Delpino |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 28 Feb 1870 |
| Classmark: | DAR 162: 146 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7120 |
From V. O. Kovalevsky 28 February [1870]
Summary
Describes his brother Alexander’s discovery of male of Bonellia, a striking example of dimorphism. Encloses a plate with notes on his brother’s work.
The difficulty his wife, Sofya Kovalevsky, has had as a woman in being admitted to Berlin University. Kirchow [Gustav Robert Kirchhoff], at Heidelberg, has taken an interest in her.
| Author: | Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevsky (Владимир Онуфриевич Ковалевский) |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 28 Feb [1870] |
| Classmark: | DAR 169: 61 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7121 |
Document type
| letter | (2) |
Author
| Delpino, Federico | (1) |
| Kovalevsky, V. O. | (1) |
Addressee
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
Correspondent
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Delpino, Federico | (1) |
| Kovalevsky, V. O. | (1) |
