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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Litchfield, H. E.
Date:
[9 May 1879]
Source of text:
DAR 219.9: 195
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Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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CD awarded the Baly Medal of the Royal College of Physicians.
Are modifications in human form and intellect due solely to natural selection or do altered external conditions also play a role?
Has CD seen Samuel Butler’s Evolution, old and new [1879], which contains a biography of Erasmus Darwin and exposition of his philosophy? "Does not this rather take the wind out of our sails?"
Sends a collection of wheat varieties from Turkestan in response to a newspaper notice of CD’s interest.