To Henry Wentworth Acland 8 December [1865]
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Acknowledges HWA’s oration.
Discusses design in nature, Asa Gray’s views, and his own confusion.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Henry Wentworth Acland, 1st baronet |
| Date: | 8 Dec [1865] |
| Classmark: | Bodleian Libraries, Oxford (MS. Acland d. 81, fols. 63–4) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4948 |
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- … especially Correspondence vol. 8, letters to Asa Gray , 22 May [1860] , 3 July [1860] , …
- … Gray of 5 June [1861] ( Correspondence vol. 9), he wrote that he had come to differ more from Gray on the subject of design: ‘from studying lately domestic variations & seeing what an enormous field of undesigned variability there is ready for natural selection to appropriate for any purpose useful to each creature’. See also Correspondence vol. 9, letter to Charles Lyell, [1 August 1861] , and Correspondence vol. 11, letter to Asa …
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Darwin in Conversation exhibition
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Meet Charles Darwin as you have never met him before. Come to our exhibition at Cambridge University Library, running from 9 July to 3 December 2022, and discover a fascinating series of interwoven conversations with Darwin's many hundreds of…
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- … 9 July – 3 December 2022 Milstein Exhibition Centre, Cambridge University …
