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From Herbert Spencer   22 February 1860

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CD has caused a great change in HS’s views, in showing how a great proportion of adaptation should be explained by natural selection not direct adaptation to changing conditions. HS had remarked on the survival of the best individuals as a cause of improvement in man, but he "& every one" overlooked selection of spontaneous variation. Believes so many kinds of indirect evidence must add up to a conclusive demonstration of the doctrine.

Author:  Herbert Spencer
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  22 Feb 1860
Classmark:  The University of Edinburgh Centre for Research Collections (Lyell collection Coll-203/A3/5: 107–9)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-2706B
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2.22 L.-J. Chavalliaud statue in Liverpool

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< Back to Introduction At about the time when a statue of Darwin was being commissioned by the Shropshire Horticultural Society for his native town of Shrewsbury, his transformative contributions to the sciences of botany and horticulture were also…

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  • … < Back to Introduction At about the time when a statue of Darwin was being …

Santa Fé, Argentina

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Inland trips

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  • … Writes of his journey from Rio Negro to Bahia Blanca, and his illness on an expedition to Santa Fé …

Origin: the lost changes for the second German edition

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Darwin sent a list of changes made uniquely to the second German edition of Origin to its translator, Heinrich Georg Bronn.  That lost list is recreated here.

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  • … I could have given no answer’. 21   Page 222, par. 1, line 3, substitute for ‘on high …

1.14 William Richmond, oil

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< Back to Introduction William Blake Richmond’s portrait of Darwin, dating from 1879, celebrated his honorary degree of LL.D (Doctor in Laws), awarded by Cambridge University in 1877. Darwin’s return to his alma mater for the presentation ceremony…

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  • … , 3 vols (London: John Murray, 1887, 1888), vol. 3, p. 222, and catalogue of portraits, p. 371. …
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