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From:
Bourchier Wrey Savile
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
27 Sept 1881
Source of text:
DAR 177: 42
Summary:

Finds it difficult to reconcile evolution with Mosaic record, but thinks it does not necessarily involve "infidel" principles.

Asks "How life born of an egg, can evolve life born of a mammal?"

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Bourchier Wrey Savile
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
30 Sept 1881
Source of text:
DAR 177: 43
Summary:

Thanks CD for his reply and, in attempting to clarify his question [see 13358], asks: "how could the first mammal species be nourished, if its immediate progenitor was non-mammal?"

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Bourchier Wrey Savile
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Oct 1881
Source of text:
DAR 177: 44
Summary:

Thanks CD for answering his query about evolution.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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