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Darwin Correspondence Project

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

Galbraith had found worms in a barrel of wheat (see letter from J. F. Galbraith, 20 October 1881).

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

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