From:
Edward Cresy, Jr
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 June 1867
Source of text:
DAR 161: 248
Summary:
Returns Hooker’s paper [unidentified].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Returns Hooker’s paper [unidentified].
Criticises the Duke of Argyll’s book [Reign of law (1867)], particularly on sexual selection.
But CD overlooks God’s intention to instruct man by nature’s beauty.
Criticism of anonymous article in North British Review [by Fleeming Jenkin, 46 (1867): 277–318].
CK supports large sports in response to large environmental changes.