From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
22 Aug [1862]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.281)
Summary:
Relates personal news about family members.
CD is "glad Glen Roy is settled".
Mentions evolutionary remarks on birds by Owen.
Compares variability among lower and higher organisms. Comments on Hooker’s view of the subject.
Forthcoming publication of Huxley’s book [Evidence as to man’s place in nature (1863)] and Lyell’s [Antiquity of man (1863)].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project