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To Armand de Quatrefages 23 August [1870]

Thanks QdeB for his continued support of CD’s election to French Academy.

Discusses views of Milne-Edwards on species.

Comments on views of Élie de Beaumont.

"I fear my next book [Descent] … will greatly displease you."

Author:	Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:	Jean Louis Armand (Armand de Quatrefages) Quatrefages de Bréau
Date:	23 Aug [1870]
Classmark:	American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.382)
Letter no:	DCP-LETT-7308

… 1838 ; see also Correspondence vol. 3, letter to Leonard Horner, 29 August [1844] ). He also refers to Elie de Beaumont’s theory that the orientation of a mountain chain was determined by the age of its formation ( Elie de Beaumont 1831 ). In his Principles of geology ( Lyell 1830–3 ), Charles …

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