He thanks Maw for his note and criticisms, and finds his remarks on the races of man interesting, but was particularly struck with his observations on the classification of mineral bodies and will give further thought to this difficulty; he will not subscribe to the testimonial to Mr Newman [a Quaker naturalist who heavily criticised Darwin’s theory of evolution] as, despite his respect for Newman’s labours, they do not seem worthy of a testimonial, and others have at least equal claims to one; he asks if Maw has sown seed of weeping trees, what the seedlings were, and whether he has observed any cases of ‘bud-variations’ [see ‘The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication’, by Charles Darwin (1868), page 373] in leaves, flowers or fruits
Level
Item
Extent
6 page letter (2 sheets)
Is part of
George Maw archive
Repository
Royal Horticultural Society Lindley Library
Copyright
The Darwin Family
Credit Line
The Darwin Family / RHS Lindley Collections
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Non-commercial use with attribution permitted (CC BY-NC 4.0)