From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Jean Jacques Moulinié
Date:
5 Dec 1871
Source of text:
Bibliothèque de Genève (Ms. suppl. 66 ff. 24–5)
Summary:
Sends corrections for new French edition of Origin.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Sends corrections for new French edition of Origin.
Sends sheets [of the 6th ed. of Origin].
Thanks JVC for his letter about the sheep.
Has frequently defended evolution and natural selection among his clergy brethren.
Now elicits CD’s views on chance.
Praise of CD. Acknowledges his indebtedness to CD for defining the subject of plant fecundation.
Expecting CD’s work on the effects of cross-fertilisation.
CD has put him in touch with George Bentham.
Gives publication date for J. C. Lavater, L’Art de connaître les hommes, 1806–9, edited by J. L. Moreau. The first four volumes appeared in 1806.