From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
[after 12 Oct 1866]
Source of text:
DAR 211: 2
Summary:
Instructions on paying a bill.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Showing 1–3 of 3 items
Instructions on paying a bill.
More comments on proofs [of CL’s Principles of geology, 10th ed.]. Discusses permanence of continents and other points.
Refers to passage describing evaporation of snow in Journal [of researches, pp. 277–8].
Cites astronomers’ views on increasing length of day.
Responds to CP’s sermon. Corrects CP’s confusion of what CD said about eyes of the Articulata with human eye,
and questions applicability of CP’s mathematical arguments about length of geological time needed for evolution.
Agrees he was foolish about the Wealden, now struck from later editions [Origin, pp. 285–7].