To Athenæum 24 January 1880
Summary
[Draft letter that was never sent, headed "First letter disapproved by everybody" in CD’s hand.] Explains that he had, in fact, mentioned in the MS of his part of Erasmus Darwin that Krause had added to his essay as it appeared in Kosmos. During subsequent revision, this mention was accidentally omitted. [Apropos of S. Butler’s charges against CD.]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Athenæum |
Date: | 24 Jan 1880 |
Classmark: | DAR 92: B98–B101 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12439 |
To Athenæum 1 February 1880
Summary
[A revised version (but also not sent) of the draft letter 12439.]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Athenæum |
Date: | 1 Feb 1880 |
Classmark: | DAR 92: B102 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12449 |
To Athenæum 18 April [1863]
Summary
Attacks the doctrine of "heterogeny" (spontaneous generation during each geological period) as completely lacking in evidence.
Defends natural selection as connecting large classes of facts in natural history. That certain forms have not changed since remote epochs is not an objection of any force.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Athenæum |
Date: | 18 Apr [1863] |
Classmark: | Athenæum, 25 April 1863, pp. 554–5 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4108 |
To Athenæum 5 May [1863]
Summary
Replies to a reviewer’s statement, that any theory of descent will connect large classes of facts, by pointing out that no other explanation has been as satisfactory as natural selection. But whatever view is adopted "signifies extremely little in comparison with the admission that species have descended from other species and have not been created immutable".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Athenæum |
Date: | 5 May [1863] |
Classmark: | Athenæum, 9 May 1863, p. 617 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4142 |
To Athenæum 1 January 1867
Summary
Expresses his support for new books being sold with the pages cut.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Athenæum |
Date: | 1 Jan 1867 |
Classmark: | Athenæum, 5 January 1867, pp. 18–19 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5343F |
To the Athenæum 19 June 1869
Summary
Thanks correspondent, "Ponderer", for pointing out his erroneous calculation of the rate of increase of elephants in Origin [p. 64]. [!?or p. 74!? (see 6775f), or 75, (see 6790)]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Athenæum |
Date: | 19 June 1869 |
Classmark: | Athenæum, 26 June 1869, p. 861 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6787 |
To the Athenæum 7 [July] 1869
Summary
Because readers have arrived at different answers to the problem of the rate of increase of elephants, CD offers a rule, used by his son George, for calculating the product for any number of generations.
[Letter erroneously dated June.]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Athenæum |
Date: | 7 [July] 1869 |
Classmark: | Athenæum, 17 July 1869, p. 82 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6820 |