To Lawson Tait 22 February [1876]
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Herbert Spencer invented the term "survival of the fittest". CD used it but found "natural selection" more convenient.
He has often spoken of natural selection’s destruction of individuals which do not come up to "proper standards of structure", which comes to nearly the same thing as RLT’s suggested distinction.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait |
| Date: | 22 Feb [1876] |
| Classmark: | Randall House, Santa Barbara (dealers) (Catalogue XXV, 1993) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10406 |
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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. …
