From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
[5 Dec 1859]
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 78)
Summary:
Thanks for THH’s review of Origin in Macmillan’s Magazine ["Time and life: Mr Darwin’s Origin of Species", 1 (1859–60): 142–8]. Reception of natural selection will depend on whether it explains the recognised laws in the several fields of natural history.
Domestic variation.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project