To Henri de Lacaze-Duthiers 28 September 1872
Down | Beckenham, Kent.
Sep 28 1872
Dear Sir,
I must trouble you with a few lines to thank you for sending me the two papers on the Embryology & Relationship of the Ascidians. I read them with the greatest interest in the Archives to which I am a Subscriber.1 Some of the expressions in your paper made me believe that you accepted the principles of evolution, & I rejoiced at this.2
And now the quotation from Bacon, & the few words in M.S with which you have honoured me, have pleased me in a still higher degree.3
With much respect | I remain Dear Sir | Yours faithfully | Charles Darwin
Footnotes
Bibliography
Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.
Lacaze-Duthiers, Félix Joseph Henri de. 1872. Direction des études zoologiques. Archives de zoologie expérimentale et générale 1: 1–64.
Summary
Thanks HdeL-D for two papers on Ascidians [by A. Giard in Arch. Zool. 1 (1872): 233–88; 397–428].
Some of the expressions in HdeL-D’s paper ["Direction des études zoologiques", Arch. Zool. 1 (1872): 1–64] made CD think he accepted the principle of evolution.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-8536
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Félix Joseph Henri (Henri) de Lacaze-Duthiers
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- Archives de l’Académie des sciences, Paris (27 J Fonds Lacaze-Duthiers)
- Physical description
- LS 2pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 8536,” accessed on 19 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-8536.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 20