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To Charles Pritchard 12 October [1866]
Summary
Responds to CP’s sermon. Corrects CP’s confusion of what CD said about eyes of the Articulata with human eye,
and questions applicability of CP’s mathematical arguments about length of geological time needed for evolution.
Agrees he was foolish about the Wealden, now struck from later editions [Origin, pp. 285–7].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Pritchard |
| Date: | 12 Oct [1866] |
| Classmark: | A. Pritchard comp. 1897, p. 93 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5240 |
From Charles Pritchard 8 October 1866
Summary
Sends sermon he preached at the BAAS Nottingham meeting ["The continuity of the schemes of nature and revelation" (1866)], in which he disagrees with CD on the gradual genesis of the human eye by natural selection.
| Author: | Charles Pritchard |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 8 Oct 1866 |
| Classmark: | DAR 174: 78 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5234 |
Author
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Pritchard, Charles | (1) |
Addressee
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Pritchard, Charles | (1) |
