To J. F. Galbraith 11 November 1881
Down, | Beckenham, Kent. | (Railway Station | Orpington. S.E.R.)
November 11 th. 1881
Dear Sir
I thank you for your kindness in having written me so long a letter; but I can assure you that there is not a naturalist in the world who would credit that germinating seeds could be developed into animals of any kind— There was plenty of time & means for the indefinite multiplication of innumerable kinds of animals in the cask.—1
Dear Sir | Yours faithfully | Ch. Darwin
Footnotes
Summary
Explains that the animals in the cask cannot have developed from the wheat.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-13477F
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Julius Frazelle Galbraith
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- Bonhams, New York (dealers) (21 September 2015)
- Physical description
- ALS 1p
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 13477F,” accessed on 28 March 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-13477F.xml