From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Hugh Edwin Strickland
Date:
[4 Feb 1849]
Source of text:
Museum of Zoology Archives, University of Cambridge (Strickland Papers)
Summary:
HES’s arguments are of great weight, but CD cannot yet bring himself to reject well-known names for obscure ones. Sends four cases that he thinks will stagger HES. Cites his problems in classifying cirripedes. CD cannot bear to give new names, yet may do wrong to attach old ones. Not one species is correctly defined. The harm done by "species mongers".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project