From:
Emma Gisborne; Emma Nixon
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Dec 1879
Source of text:
DAR 99: 189–90
Summary:
Thanks for Erasmus Darwin.
Violetta Darwin is near death.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Thanks for Erasmus Darwin.
Violetta Darwin is near death.
At CD’s request he has read Malcolm Guthrie’s book [On Mr Spencer’s formula of evolution (1879)], which is a critique of First principles. He finds it a helpful clarification of Spencer’s views; however, it is as pseudo-scientific as the book it criticises.