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To John Tyndall 4 February 1876
Summary
Sends congratulations and a teapot on the occasion of JT’s engagement.
Is pleased JT is not giving up on the spontaneous generation question. Feels strongly that subject will not be clear until it is understood how J. S. Burdon Sanderson and others succeeded in getting bacteria in infusions they had boiled for a long time.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Tyndall |
| Date: | 4 Feb 1876 |
| Classmark: | DAR 261.8: 24 (EH 88205962) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10379 |
To John Tyndall 5 June [1876]
Summary
CD has quite given up the marine theory [of Glen Roy] and has accepted glacier lakes. "Nothing makes me gnash my teeth so much as that confounded paper of mine." It is a lesson "never in science to infer one explanation is right because no other one seems possible".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Tyndall |
| Date: | 5 June [1876] |
| Classmark: | DAR 261.8: 25 (EH 88205963) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10532 |
