From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Gardeners’ Chronicle
Date:
[13 Apr 1860]
Source of text:
Gardeners’ Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette , 21 April 1860, pp. 362–3
Summary:
CD acknowledges that Patrick Matthew, in his appendix to Naval timber and arboriculture (1831), anticipated by many years CD’s explanation of the origin of species by natural selection. CD was ignorant of the work. If another edition of Origin is called for, CD will insert a notice to the foregoing effect.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project