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To A. C. Ramsay 23 February [1860]
Summary
Pleased ACR likes Origin. Every geological believer is most important. A long, stiff battle is ahead for the new doctrine.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Andrew Crombie Ramsay |
| Date: | 23 Feb [1860] |
| Classmark: | DAR 261.9: 2 (EH 88205975) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2711 |
From Andrew Crombie Ramsay 21 February 1860
Summary
ACR has for years had a belief in mutability and transmutation of species, prompted by disputes over the nature of species and varieties, and the existence of representative species in space and in the geological record. Could not accept a Creator employing small miracles to make species differ just a little between formations. Has maintained that one would not expect to find fine gradations between forms in the fossil record, but only representatives of very populous forms. [See 2711.]
| Author: | Andrew Crombie Ramsay |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 21 Feb 1860 |
| Classmark: | The University of Edinburgh Centre for Research Collections (Lyell collection Coll-203/A3/5: 112–16) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2706A |
Document type
| letter | (2) |
Author
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Ramsay, A. C. | (1) |
Addressee
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Ramsay, A. C. | (1) |
