From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Stevens Henslow
Date:
8 May [1860]
Source of text:
DAR 93: A67–9
Summary:
Comments on Richard Owen’s review of the Origin [in Edinburgh Rev. 111 (1860): 487–532]. Considers Owen unfair to CD and most ungenerous toward Hooker.
Expects Sedgwick to be fierce against him. Sedgwick also misrepresented CD in his Spectator review [24 Mar and 7 Apr 1860].
Compares natural selection to the undulatory theory of light as a hypothesis explaining a large number of facts.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
