To Edouard Bergson 13 October 1875
Down | Beckenham. Kent.
Oct 13— 75.
Dear Sir.
I am much obliged for your kind expressions towards me, I fully agree with what you say about the impossibility of distinguishing between animal & vegetable organisms.1 This is well shown by Häckel having formed an intermediate kingdom—2 There is therefore no difficulty in believing that some low animal was descended from some low vegetable form. But it seems to me hopeless to speculate about organisms which lived at so remote a period
As I have many letters to write I hope you will excuse my brevity.
Dear Sir. | Yours faithfully. | Ch. Darwin.
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.
Summary
Comments on difficulty of distinguishing between lower animal and vegetable organisms.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-10195
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Edouard Bergson
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- DAR 143: 111
- Physical description
- C 1p
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 10195,” accessed on 28 March 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-10195.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 23