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To Armand de Quatrefages 6 March 1869
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Wishes to introduce his son, George Howard Darwin.
Has glanced at the second of AdeQ’s articles on natural history in Revue de deux mondes; ordered first article but second is already out of print.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Jean Louis Armand (Armand de Quatrefages) Quatrefages de Bréau |
| Date: | 6 Mar 1869 |
| Classmark: | Bibliothèque nationale de France, département des Manuscrits (Manuscripts NAF 11824 ff. 72–3) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6645F |
From Armand de Quatrefages 29 March 1869
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Comments on their differences regarding evolution. Acknowledges that CD alone has produced an evolutionary theory that is scientific and all-embracing. Appreciates grandeur of CD’s work.
| Author: | Jean Louis Armand (Armand de Quatrefages) Quatrefages de Bréau |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 29 Mar 1869 |
| Classmark: | DAR 175: 5 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6686 |
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- … Darwin planned to travel to Paris on 5 March 1869 (see letter from G. H. Darwin, [23 February 1869] and n. 7). Quatrefages refers to the Institut de France. The institute was the home of five learned societies, including the Académie des Sciences, of which Quatrefages was a member ( DSB ). For more on the French debates over transformism, see Conry 1974 , pp. 359–92. See also Correspondence vol. 16, letter from Camille Dareste, 3 April 1868 . …
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| letter | (2) |
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| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Quatrefages de Bréau, Armand de Quatrefages |
