From:
Joachim Barrande
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 June 1870
Source of text:
DAR 160: 44–5
Summary:
Encloses a copy of a letter he has written to a French geologist. In it he raises objections to evolutionary theory:
why are corals inadequately represented in the fossil record?
How can one explain the widespread appearance and then disappearance of groups like the trilobites?
If Mollusca and Articulata have a common ancestor, why are not ancient forms more akin than present ones?
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project