To Charles Lyell 15 April [1860]
Summary
Has resolved not to correct Owen’s misrepresentations in his review of Origin.
Discusses at length the theological implications of natural selection.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
| Date: | 15 Apr [1860] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.208) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2761 |
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- … 10 April [1860]. CD was mistaken about the date: Saturday was 21 April 1860. Emma Darwin’s diary records that CD went to London on this date. Benjamin Collins Brodie, president of the Royal Society, held a soirée in the society’s rooms at Burlington House on 21 April ( Athenæum , 28 April 1860, p. 584). This is possibly a repetition of an expression used in conversation with Lyell during his recent visit to Down, 9 to 12 …
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| Lyell, Charles | (1) |
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| Lyell, Charles | (1) |
