To W. R. Greg 21 March [1860?]
Summary
Is glad to read Greg’s remarks on Origin. Discusses MS Greg has sent for review on proportion of sexes at birth.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Rathbone Greg |
| Date: | 21 Mar [1860?] |
| Classmark: | Sotheby’s, New York (dealers) (December 1996) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2732F |
To H. G. Bronn 21 March [1860]
Summary
Thanks HGB [for his Morphologische Studien (1858)].
Pleased at quickness of translation.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Heinrich Georg Bronn |
| Date: | 21 Mar [1860] |
| Classmark: | DAR 143: 149 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2732 |
To G. H. K. Thwaites 21 March [1860]
Summary
Is pleased GHKT goes a little way with him.
Has rectified in foreign editions of Origin his omission of an explanation of the failure of many forms to progress;
also has discussion of beauty in MS. Does GHKT really believe Diatomaceae, for instance, were created beautiful so that man, millions of generations later, should admire them through a microscope? CD attributes most of these structures to unknown laws of growth; useful structures are accounted for by natural selection.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George Henry Kendrick Thwaites |
| Date: | 21 Mar [1860] |
| Classmark: | Smithsonian Libraries and Archives (Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology MSS 405 A. Gift of the Burndy Library) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2731 |
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- … Darwin, C. R. Thwaites, G. H. K. …
- … Darwin. 2 vols. London: John Murray. 1871. ML : More letters of Charles Darwin: a record of his work in a series of hitherto unpublished letters. Edited by Francis Darwin and Albert Charles Seward. 2 vols. London: John Murray. 1903. Natural selection : Charles Darwin’s Natural selection: being the second part of his big species book written from 1856 to 1858. Edited by R. C. …
Document type
| letter | (3) |
Author
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
Addressee
| Bronn, H. G. | (1) |
| Greg, W. R. | (1) |
| Thwaites, G. H. K. | (1) |
Correspondent
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
| Bronn, H. G. | (1) |
| Greg, W. R. | (1) |
| Thwaites, G. H. K. | (1) |
