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To Charles Kingsley 10 June [1867]
Summary
Discusses the Duke of Argyll’s book [Reign of law (1867)].
Cites his own views on diversity of structure and beauty.
Encloses letter from Wallace. Sexual selection: evidence advanced by Wallace.
Discusses correlation of growth.
Comments on article in the North British Review [by Fleeming Jenkin].
Discusses the evidence from physics on the age of the earth.
[Four pages of the final letter are missing, but the draft is complete.]
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Kingsley |
| Date: | 10 June [1867] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.330) & DAR 96: 28–9, 32 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5567 |
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- … J. D. Hooker, [28 February 1866] ( Correspondence vol. 14). Thomson held that the crust of the earth had solidified only 100 million years ago, and had criticised CD’s estimate in the first edition of Origin of 300 million years for the denudation of the Weald (see W. Thomson 1862 , pp. 391–2). In 1864, …
From Charles Kingsley 14 June 1865
Summary
CD’s paper on "Climbing plants" [J. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Bot.) 9 (1867): 1–118] has made nature come alive for CK.
| Author: | Charles Kingsley |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 14 June 1865 |
| Classmark: | DAR 169: 33 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4861 |
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| letter | (2) |
Author
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Kingsley, Charles | (1) |
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| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Kingsley, Charles | (1) |
