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From:
Huxley, T. H.
To:
Darwin, G. H.
Date:
20 May 1880
Source of text:
DAR 251: 1912
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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Expresses his delight with and admiration for THH’s "Coming of age [of The origin of species]" in Nature [22 (1880): 1–4].
Hopes CD does not think his faith in natural selection is weak because he omitted mention of it in his lecture.
Is working on dogs. They will make a case for "Darwinismus".
Comments on natural selection. Sometimes he can persuade himself that it is of quite subordinate importance, but so many structures have been explained by it that he can also persuade himself that every structure developed through it. Cites H. G. Bronn’s list [of structures not explicable by natural selection].