From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
21 Aug [1861]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.261)
Summary:
Suggests change in a passage [in MS] of CL’s [Antiquity of man (1863)] dealing with adaptations for travel.
Comments on review of Origin by F. W. Hutton [Geologist (1861): 132–6, 183–8].
Emphasises importance of variability for natural selection.
Discusses possiblity of intelligent causes in variation.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project