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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, W. E.
Date:
[8 May 1860]
Source of text:
DAR 219.1: 27
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Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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Comments on Richard Owen’s review of the Origin [in Edinburgh Rev. 111 (1860): 487–532]. Considers Owen unfair to CD and most ungenerous toward Hooker.
Expects Sedgwick to be fierce against him. Sedgwick also misrepresented CD in his Spectator review [24 Mar and 7 Apr 1860].
Compares natural selection to the undulatory theory of light as a hypothesis explaining a large number of facts.
Observations on hybrids from crossed cabbage varieties.