From E. A. Darwin 11 November [1869]1
Nov 11
A parcel of engravings is come done up but with your paper of instructions outside.2 Shall I send them on?
E D
Sterling sent today is very interesting but is he quite fair about ‘Selection’3
Footnotes
The year is established by the reference to Stirling 1869 (see n. 3, below).
The engravings may have been those completed by Edward A. Smith (see letter to Frederick Smith, 9 November [1869]).
The reference is to James Hutchison Stirling’s As regards protoplasm, in relation to Professor Huxley’s essay, On the physical basis of life (Stirling 1869); for Stirling’s discussion of CD’s theory, including his use of the term ‘selection’, see pp. 58–64.
Bibliography
Stirling, James Hutchison. 1869. As regards protoplasm, in relation to Professor Huxley’s essay, On the physical basis of life. Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and sons.
Summary
A parcel of engravings has come; shall EAD send them on?
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-6982
- From
- Erasmus Alvey Darwin
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- unstated
- Source of text
- DAR 105: B64
- Physical description
- ALS 1p
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 6982,” accessed on 26 September 2022, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-6982.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 17
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