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To Roderick Impey Murchison   1 May [1860]1

Down Bromley Kent

May 1st

Dear Sir Roderick Murchison

I am much obliged for your kind note & for forwarding to me Count Keyserling’s note2— I am pleased by it, for I look at any good geologist & palæontologist going one inch with me as more important than a naturalist going two or three inches.—

Pray believe me | Yours sincerely | Charles Darwin

Footnotes

The year is given by the reference to Alexandr Andreevich Keyserling (see n. 2, below).
CD had sent the Russian palaeontologist Keyserling a presentation copy of Origin (see Correspondence vol.8, Appendix III and Correspondence vol. 7, letter to T. H. Huxley, 15 October [1859]). Keyserling and Murchison had travelled through Russia together in 1844. For Keyserling’s views concerning CD’s theory, see the letter to Charles Lyell, 4 May [1860].

Bibliography

Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.

Origin: On the origin of species by means of natural selection, or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1859.

Summary

Much obliged for note from Alexander von Keyserling. Geologist going one inch with CD more important than naturalist going two or three.

Letter details

Letter no.
DCP-LETT-2779
From
Charles Robert Darwin
To
Roderick Impey Murchison, 1st baronet
Sent from
Down
Source of text
The British Library (Surrogate RP 7400)
Physical description
ALS 1p & C 1p

Please cite as

Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 2779,” accessed on 28 March 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-2779.xml

Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 8

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