From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
21 Jan [1871]
Source of text:
DAR 94: 186–7
Summary:
Finished the last proofs of Descent a few days ago. "I shall be well abused."
St George Mivart’s Genesis [of species]: very good, unfortunately theological. Will tell heavily against natural selection but not against evolution, and this is "infinitely more important".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project