From:
Henry Alfred Pitman
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 May 1879
Source of text:
DAR 174: 46
Summary:
CD awarded the Baly Medal of the Royal College of Physicians.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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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.