From:
William Branwhite Clarke
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[Aug 1861]
Source of text:
DAR 161.2: 171
Summary:
Evidence of glacial action in Australia. [See Origin, 4th ed., p. 443.]
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Evidence of glacial action in Australia. [See Origin, 4th ed., p. 443.]
Mentions Dutch translation [of Origin].
Discusses evolutionary origin of sexuality.
Asa Gray’s suggestion that variation was directed by a higher power and Herschel’s view of providential arrangement in nature.
Compares variation in domestic and wild species.
Asks CL for introductions for his son William in Southampton, where he has joined a bank.
Has visited T. V. Wollaston, who is working hard but lives too solitary a life.
There are further legal complications with William Darwin’s partnership and CD’s solicitor wants to call on JL.
No summary available.