From C. C. Blake 20 February 1871
Summary
Has just received copy of CD’s work [Descent].
Can corroborate artificial compression of skull practised by Indians.
May have to modify his earlier published opinions on CD’s views.
| Author: | Charles Carter Blake |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 20 Feb 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 160: 199 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7495 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … 1855 . Fiat justicia, ruat coelum : let justice be done, though the heavens fall (Latin). See letter to R. F. Cooke, 12 January [1871] and n. 6. Blake had been a member of the Anthropological Society, which had been opposed to CD’s theory of natural selection (see Correspondence vol. 11, letter to J. D. Hooker, …
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