To Nature 20 September [1873]
Summary
CD, in commenting on Wyville Thomson’s "Notes from the Challenger" [Nature 8 (1873): 347–9], recapitulates his work on rudimentary male cirripedes [Living Cirripedia], especially the complementary males attached to hermaphrodites. Offers an explanation, on evolutionary grounds, of their function and size.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Nature |
Date: | 20 Sept [1873] |
Classmark: | Nature, 25 September 1873, pp. 431–2 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9061 |