From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Horace Benge Dobell
Date:
17 July [1864]
Source of text:
DAR 221.5: 8 (photocopy)
Summary:
Thanks HBD for his note. The analogy of surnames had not occurred to CD – only that of language generally, as shown so well by Lyell. Fears HBD’s argument about progression would not have much weight.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project