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 |
To Charles Lyell 10 April [1860]
Summary
W. B. Carpenter’s review of Origin [in Br. & Foreign Med.-Chir. Rev. 25 (1860): 367–404] "very good and well balanced, but not brilliant".
"There is a brilliant review by Huxley" [Westminster Rev. 17 (1860): 541–70].
Asa Gray sends good case of selection producing black pigs in Virginia.
Great blow to CD that CL cannot admit potency of natural selection.
Owen’s review in Edinburgh Review [111 (1860): 487–532] "extremely malignant, clever".
Patrick Matthew has published extract in Gardeners’ Chronicle [7 Apr 1860] from his Naval timber and arboriculture [1831], a complete but not developed anticipation of natural selection.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
| Date: | 10 Apr [1860] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.206) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2754 |
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