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DCP-LETT-6023

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
[19 Mar 1868]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.349)
Summary:

The second volume of Lyell’s [Principles, 10th ed.] gives a "fair history of the progress of opinion on Species".

Pleased by allusion to Pangenesis: "an untried hypothesis is always dangerous ground".

Looks forward to chapter on domestication and on man.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6024

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 Mar 1868
Source of text:
DAR 106: B59–60
Summary:

On sterility of natural species and natural selection. Closely allied forms from adjacent islands offer best chance of finding good species fertile inter se.

Problem of minute variations and sexual selection.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-6025

From:
Paolo Mantegazza
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 Mar 1868
Source of text:
DAR 171: 36
Summary:

Sends papers.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6026

From:
Bartholomew James Sulivan
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 Mar 1868
Source of text:
DAR 177: 292
Summary:

Writes of his son’s affairs.

Is reading Variation and discusses a point relating to feeding habits of horses.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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