From James Williams 24 January 1882
Mining Directory Office, | Hayle,
Jany. 24th. 1882.
C. Darwin Esqre./
Sir,
I hope you will excuse the liberty, I now take, in addressing you, if I could have gained the information I required I would not have presumed to trouble you,
The information I require, is, are the three Kingdoms i.e. The Animal, the Vegetable, and the Mineral so nearly merged one in the other so as not to be able to draw the line,1
I have had for answer yes, and no, which is correct,
I have made some important discoveries in the mineral kingdom and am desirous of going further
I am, | Sir | yours most obediently | Jas. Williams
Footnotes
Bibliography
Haeckel, Ernst. 1866. Generelle Morphologie der Organismen. Allgemeine Grundzüge der organischen Formen-Wissenschaft, mechanisch begründet durch die von Charles Darwin reformirte Descendenz-Theorie. 2 vols. Berlin: Georg Reimer.
Linnaeus, Carolus (Carl von Linné). 1758–9. Systema naturæ per regna tria naturæ, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. 10th edition. 2 vols. Stockholm: Laurentius Salvius.
Summary
Are the animal and vegetable kingdoms so united as to be indistinguishable?
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-13643
- From
- James Williams
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- Mining Directory Office, Hayle
- Source of text
- DAR 201: 42
- Physical description
- ALS 1p
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 13643,” accessed on 28 March 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-13643.xml