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DCP-LETT-2703

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
18 and 19 Feb 1860
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.199)
Summary:

Encloses reviews by Asa Gray and Bronn. Comments on Bronn review. Mentions review by Wollaston.

Comments on paper by W. H. Harvey in Gardeners’ Chronicle [(1860): 145–6]. Discusses Harvey’s belief in the permanence of monsters.

Discusses CL’s objection that still-living primitive forms failed to develop.

The survival of Lepidosiren and other primitive types of fish and mammals.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2704

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
18 Feb [1860]
Source of text:
Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (22)
Summary:

Thinks AG’s review is admirable.

Reactions of others to the Origin.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel6571

From:
William Crookes
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[18 February 1860]
Source of text:
RS:HS 5.314
Summary:

Is grateful for the help JH's letter gave him in his legal dispute with the Photographic News.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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