From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Kingsley
Date:
10 June [1867]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.330) & DAR 96: 28–9, 32
Summary:
Discusses the Duke of Argyll’s book [Reign of law (1867)].
Cites his own views on diversity of structure and beauty.
Encloses letter from Wallace. Sexual selection: evidence advanced by Wallace.
Discusses correlation of growth.
Comments on article in the North British Review [by Fleeming Jenkin].
Discusses the evidence from physics on the age of the earth.
[Four pages of the final letter are missing, but the draft is complete.]
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
