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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
12–13 Mar [1863]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.290)
Summary:

[On Antiquity of man] CD is "convinced that at times … you have … given up immutability". "A clear expression from you, if you could have given it, would have been potent with the public."

Objects to CL’s description of CD’s view "as a modification of Lamarck’s doctrine". Quotes Henrietta [Darwin]’s observations on this description.

Comments on CL’s controversy with Owen concerning the human brain.

The controversy between Falconer and CL.

The "wretched" review of CL [Antiquity of man, Athenæum 14 Feb 1863, pp. 219–21] and Huxley [Man’s place in nature].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project