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To William Horsfall   8 February 1882

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Does not feel that the occurrence of perfect trilobites in the oldest known fossil-bearing rocks is fatal to evolution, as he does not believe these rocks to be contemporaneous with the first appearance of life.

Locomotive spores of some algae are like animals.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  William Horsfall
Date:  8 Feb 1882
Classmark:  English Heritage, Down House (Scrapbook)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-13670
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