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The Charles Darwin Collection
The Darwin Correspondence Project is publishing letters written by and to the naturalist Charles Darwin (1809–1882). Complete transcripts of letters are being made available through the Project’s website (www.darwinproject.ac.uk) after publication in the ongoing print edition of The Correspondence of Charles Darwin (Cambridge University Press 1985–). Metadata and summaries of all known letters (c. 15,000) appear in Ɛpsilon, and the full texts of available letters can also be searched, with links to the full texts.
Discusses letter of recommendation for Edward Blyth.
Sedgwick’s review of the Origin in the Spectator [24 Mar 1860].
Mentions breaks between geological formations.
W&N have not yet received the German edition of the Origin.
Recommend French–English and French dictionaries.
Comments on QdeB’s [Études sur les maladies actuelles du ver à soie (1860)].
Has failed to find French publisher for Origin.
Invites THH to join Hooker at Down on 5 April.
Discusses the intellectual development of the ancient Greeks as an objection to evolution and gives his reply.
Thanks for a shell of an edible mollusc and also specimens of blind cave animals, which he will present in FW’s name to the British Museum.