From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Horsfall
Date:
8 Feb 1882
Source of text:
English Heritage, Down House (Scrapbook)
Summary:
Does not feel that the occurrence of perfect trilobites in the oldest known fossil-bearing rocks is fatal to evolution, as he does not believe these rocks to be contemporaneous with the first appearance of life.
Locomotive spores of some algae are like animals.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project