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From:
Samuel Tolver Preston
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 Aug 1880
Source of text:
DAR 174: 62
Summary:

Sends his paper on "Natural science and morality", notwithstanding CD’s disinclination for the subject. This work parallels H. Spencer’s in the Data of ethics [1879].

Clerk Maxwell and William Thomson have encouraged his work in physics; STP looks for CD’s support on evolution.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
5 Aug [1880]
Source of text:
DAR 211: 66
Summary:

Discusses corrections [to Movement in plants]. Has dispatched chapter nine.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project