From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
1 Oct [1862]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.282)
Summary:
Mentions a discussion of man by Isidore Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire in his Histoire naturelle générale [1854–62].
Mentions a book by Friedrich Rolle [Ch. Darwin’s Lehre von der Entstehung der Arten (1863)].
Cites evolutionary statements on elephants by Hugh Falconer and notes Falconer’s objection to natural selection.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project