I should be grateful for an answer on this
point.
I hope that your Eastern book progresses well.--My dear Wallace, yours
sincerely,
C. DARWIN.
* * * * *
Sir Clifford Allbutt's view, referred to in the following letter,
probably had reference to the fact that the sperm-cell goes, or is
carried, to the germ-cell, never vice versa. In this letter Darwin gives
the reason for the "law" referred to. Wallace has been good enough to
supply the following note (May 27, 1902): "It was at this time that my
paper on 'Protective Resemblance' first appeared in the _Westminster
Review_, in which I adduced the greater, or, rather, the more
continuous, importance of the female (in the lower animals) for the
race, and my 'Theory of Birds' Nests' (_Journal of Travel and Natural
History_, No. 2), in which I applied this to the usually dull colours of
female butterflies and birds. It is to these articles, as well as to my
letters, that Darwin chiefly refers."
_Down, Bromley, Kent, S.E. April 30, 1868._
My dear Wallace,--Your letter, like so many previous ones, has
interested me much.
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