To the Athenæum 19 June 1869
Summary
Thanks correspondent, "Ponderer", for pointing out his erroneous calculation of the rate of increase of elephants in Origin [p. 64]. [!?or p. 74!? (see 6775f), or 75, (see 6790)]
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Athenæum |
| Date: | 19 June 1869 |
| Classmark: | Athenæum, 26 June 1869, p. 861 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6787 |
To the Athenæum 7 [July] 1869
Summary
Because readers have arrived at different answers to the problem of the rate of increase of elephants, CD offers a rule, used by his son George, for calculating the product for any number of generations.
[Letter erroneously dated June.]
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Athenæum |
| Date: | 7 [July] 1869 |
| Classmark: | Athenæum, 17 July 1869, p. 82 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6820 |
To Athenæum 5 May [1863]
Summary
Replies to a reviewer’s statement, that any theory of descent will connect large classes of facts, by pointing out that no other explanation has been as satisfactory as natural selection. But whatever view is adopted "signifies extremely little in comparison with the admission that species have descended from other species and have not been created immutable".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Athenæum |
| Date: | 5 May [1863] |
| Classmark: | Athenæum, 9 May 1863, p. 617 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4142 |
