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To Herbert Spencer   21 August [1873]

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Thanks for copy of HS’s Descriptive sociology [1873].

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Herbert Spencer
Date:  21 Aug [1873]
Classmark:  University of London, Senate House Library (MS.791/322)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9019

To Herbert Spencer   31 October [1873]

Summary

Discusses adaptations in flowers and their heritability.

Mentions advertisements for HS’s book [? Study of sociology (1873)].

Thought HS would have profited by principle that a character appearing late in life is inherited at same age.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Herbert Spencer
Date:  31 Oct [1873]
Classmark:  DAR 147: 486
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9119
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