To A. R. Wallace 28 August [1872]
Summary
Detailed response to reading of Bastian’s Beginnings of life [1872]. On the whole, it seems probable to CD that spontaneous generation is true.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
| Date: | 28 Aug [1872] |
| Classmark: | The British Library (Add MS 46434) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8488 |
To Nature 3 August [1872]
Summary
Replies to C. R. Bree’s letter of 27 July [Nature 6 (1872): 260] contending that CD was wrong about early pedigree of man.
Defends the statement of CD’s view in Wallace’s review [Nature 6 (1872): 237–9] of Bree’s book [Exposition of fallacies … of Darwin (1872)].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Nature |
| Date: | 3 Aug [1872] |
| Classmark: | Nature, 8 August 1872, p. 279 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8448 |
To J. S. Burdon Sanderson 16 July 1875
Summary
Thanks for JSBS’s essays; wishes he had said something on Lister’s observations. Speculates on the fungoid nature of smallpox and why there is seldom re-infection.
Discusses digestion by Drosera, the action of its secretion being the same as that of gastric juice.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Scott Burdon Sanderson, 1st baronet |
| Date: | 16 July 1875 |
| Classmark: | University of British Columbia Library, Rare Books and Special Collections (Darwin - Burdon Sanderson letters RBSC-ARC-1731-1-22) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10070 |
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- … letter to A. R. Wallace, 28 August [1872] ). John Simon was the medical officer of the Privy Council. CD may refer to his twelfth report ( House of Commons Parliamentary Papers: Public Health. Twelfth report of the medical officer of the Privy Council; 1870 (c. 208) XXXVIII.591), which contained a report by Burdon Sanderson in the appendix, ‘On the intimate pathology of contagion’ ( Burdon Sanderson 1870 ). A copy is in the Darwin …
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| letter | (3) |
Author
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
Addressee
| Burdon Sanderson, J. S. | (1) |
| Nature | (1) |
| Wallace, A. R. | (1) |
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| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
| Burdon Sanderson, J. S. | (1) |
| Nature | (1) |
| Wallace, A. R. | (1) |
