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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Athenæum
Date:
18 Apr [1863]
Source of text:
Athenæum , 25 April 1863, pp. 554–5
Summary:

Attacks the doctrine of "heterogeny" (spontaneous generation during each geological period) as completely lacking in evidence.

Defends natural selection as connecting large classes of facts in natural history. That certain forms have not changed since remote epochs is not an objection of any force.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Athenæum
Date:
5 May [1863]
Source of text:
Athenæum , 9 May 1863, p. 617
Summary:

Replies to a reviewer’s statement, that any theory of descent will connect large classes of facts, by pointing out that no other explanation has been as satisfactory as natural selection. But whatever view is adopted "signifies extremely little in comparison with the admission that species have descended from other species and have not been created immutable".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Athenæum
Date:
1 Jan 1867
Source of text:
Athenæum , 5 January 1867, pp. 18–19
Summary:

Expresses his support for new books being sold with the pages cut.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Athenæum
Date:
19 June 1869
Source of text:
Athenæum , 26 June 1869, p. 861
Summary:

Thanks correspondent, "Ponderer", for pointing out his erroneous calculation of the rate of increase of elephants in Origin [p. 64]. [!?or p. 74!? (see 6775f), or 75, (see 6790)]

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Athenæum
Date:
7 [July] 1869
Source of text:
Athenæum , 17 July 1869, p. 82
Summary:

Because readers have arrived at different answers to the problem of the rate of increase of elephants, CD offers a rule, used by his son George, for calculating the product for any number of generations.

[Letter erroneously dated June.]

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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