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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Cuthbert Collingwood
Date:
14 Mar [1861]
Source of text:
The British Library (Add. MS. 37725, ff. 6–9b)
Summary:

CD is not surprised at CC’s entire rejection of his views. Agrees that there is no direct proof of unlimited variation. Says natural selection should be viewed as comparable to wave theory of light: it is probable because it groups and explains a host of facts in several fields of science.

Agrees Louis Agassiz’s review [Am. J. Sci. 2d ser. 30 (1860): 142–55] is not unfair, but Agassiz misunderstands CD. His "categories of thought" are to CD merely empty words.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Cuthbert Collingwood
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 Feb 1866
Source of text:
DAR 161: 212
Summary:

Going to Orient as naturalist aboard the Rifleman. Offers CD his services.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Cuthbert Collingwood
Date:
16 Feb [1866]
Source of text:
DAR 185: 96
Summary:

Regrets that his health prevents their meeting, but offers some suggestions for the expedition to the Malay Archipelago and coast of China: the search of caverns in the Malay Archipelago for fossil bones, deep sea dredging in the tropics, glacial action in any moderately steep mountains, means of geographical distribution, the history of domestic animals in these regions, and gestures and expressions of real savages as compared with our civilised expressions. [See 5008 and 5011.]

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From:
Cuthbert Collingwood
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Feb 1866
Source of text:
DAR 161: 213
Summary:

Thanks for CD’s suggestions. [From CD’s notes on CC’s previous letter, these were (1) means of distribution; (2) domestic animals; (3) gestures of savages.]

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From:
Cuthbert Collingwood
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
30 Mar 1868
Source of text:
DAR 161: 214
Summary:

Sends CD his book [Naturalist on the China Sea (1868)].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project