From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
4 [Feb 1863]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.287)
Summary:
Thanks CL for "the great book" [Antiquity of man (1863)].
Richard Owen "ought to be ostracised by every Naturalist in England".
CL’s book will "give the whole subject of change of species an enormous advance".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project