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From J. S. Henslow to J. D. Hooker 10 May 1860
Summary
Describes Sedgwick’s attack on CD’s views [at Cambridge Philosophical Society] and his own defence, though he believes CD has pressed his hypothesis too far.
Author: | John Stevens Henslow |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 10 May 1860 |
Classmark: | MS Add. 9537/2 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2794 |
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- … John Phillips was president of the Geological Society and professor of geology at Oxford University. The title of Phillips’s lecture was ‘Life on the earth, its origin and succession’ ( Phillips 1860 ). Phillips addressed, among other topics, the question of natural selection and the mutability of species ( Phillips 1860 , pp. 200–17). Adam Sedgwick …