From:
Hugh Edwin Strickland
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Feb 1849
Source of text:
Museum of Zoology Archives, University of Cambridge (Strickland Papers)
Summary:
The priority rule has only diverted vanity to a rush to be first. Has no objection to CD’s suggestion that good books be quoted in preference to first descriptions if there is a chance by this means of developing this silly vanity into ambition to advance knowledge. Still, this must not affect the rule of priority. Responds to CD’s four cases.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project