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To Charles Lyell 4 [February 1863]
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Thanks CL for "the great book" [Antiquity of man (1863)].
Richard Owen "ought to be ostracised by every Naturalist in England".
CL’s book will "give the whole subject of change of species an enormous advance".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
| Date: | 4 [Feb 1863] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.287) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3967 |
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- … 1857 ). Lyell reviewed the controversy surrounding Owen’s thesis in some detail in the last chapter of Antiquity of man , supporting Owen’s chief opponent in the debate, Thomas Henry Huxley ( C. Lyell 1863a , pp. 480–500). Owen responded with a long and vitriolic letter to the Athenæum , 21 February 1863, pp. 262–3, which fuelled further controversy (see letter from J. D. Hooker, [ …
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| letter | (1) |
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| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
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| Lyell, Charles | (1) |
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| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Lyell, Charles |
