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DCP-LETT-2690

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles James Fox Bunbury, 8th baronet
Date:
9 Feb [1860]
Source of text:
Suffolk Record Office, Bury St Edmunds (Bunbury Family Papers E18/700/1/9/6)
Summary:

Responds to CJFB’s criticisms of the Origin [see 2669].

If CD’s theory is a satisfactory explanation of the "principles of Homology, and of Embryology, and Rudimentary organs", the difficulty in imagining the transitions between classes of beings should not weigh against the understanding it provides such large classes of facts. Defends natural selection against criticism that it is not a vera causa. Comments on "Degeneracy", extinction of intermediate forms, and the effect of theory in natural history in opening up new fields of inquiry and giving rational instead of theological explanations of facts.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2691

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Stevens Henslow
Date:
9 Feb [1860]
Source of text:
DAR 93: A63–4
Summary:

Sends directions for JSH’s journey to Bromley and Down.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Herschel6570

From:
William Crookes
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[9 February 1860]
Source of text:
RS:HS 5.313
Summary:

Would like a letter from JH supporting him against the charge of incompetency in his editing of the Photographic News.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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FVM-60-02-09

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
John Macadam
Date:
9 February 1860
Source of text:
MS 13071 Royal Society of Victoria Exploration Committee records, box 2076/2, La Trobe Australian Manuscripts Collection, State Library of Victoria, Melbourne
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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