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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
23 [Sept 1860]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.227)
Summary:

Hopes to get Asa Gray’s review of Origin republished.

Argues for single origin of mammals.

Encloses two phylogenetic diagrams indicating possible descent of mammals.

Comments on rodents, marsupials, and dingo in Australia,

and on a paper on the survival of stumps as a result of root grafting.

Argues that man had a single progenitor and consists of a single species.

Comments on destruction of non-white races.

Discusses introduction of rodents to islands by man.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project