To Smith, Elder & Company 14 January [1863]
Summary
Asks for account of sales of Geology of "Beagle". Willing to consider offer for remaining stock in order to close account.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Smith, Elder & Co |
Date: | 14 Jan [1863] |
Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (MS.23181, ff.1-5 (S. E. & Co. work slip, ff.1-2, letter ff.3-4, address envelope f.5)) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3914 |
From Alfred Russel Wallace 14 January [1863]
Author: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 14 Jan [1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 106: B7 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3915 |
From J. P. Thom 14 January 1863
Summary
Thanks for a gift of £20.
Author: | John Pringle Thom |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 14 Jan 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 178: 107 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3916 |
To Alphonse de Candolle 14 January [1863]
Summary
Thanks AdeC for his memoir ["Étude sur l’espèce", Ann. Sci. Nat. (Bot.) 4th ser. 18 (1862): 59–110].
CD astonished at the amount of variability in the oaks.
CD differs from most contemporaries in thinking that the vast continental extensions of Forbes, Heer, and others are not only advanced without sufficient evidence but are opposed to much weighty evidence.
AdeC’s comment on CD’s work [Origin] is generous.
CD is satisfied at the length AdeC goes with him and is not surprised at his prudent reservations. He remembers how many years it took him to change his old beliefs. The great point is to give up immutability. So long as species are thought immutable there can be no progress in "epiontology" [see ML 1: 234 n.]. CD is sure to be proved wrong in many points but the subject will have "a grand future".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Alphonse de Candolle |
Date: | 14 Jan [1863] |
Classmark: | Archives de la famille de Candolle (private collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3917 |
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Thom, J. P. | (1) |
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