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From:
Pierre Paul (Paul) Broca
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Aug 1870
Source of text:
DAR 160: 313
Summary:

Thanks CD for compliments on the first part of his "discours",

but the later part was critical of natural selection. Nevertheless, CD should see him not as a systematic adversary, but in the camp of Quatrefages de Bréau and Milne-Edwards.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
John Herschel (son)
Date:
[4 August 1870]
Source of text:
JHS 5.43
Summary:

Discusses the signatures needed for a fellowship certificate for the R.S.L. [see JH's 1870-8-1 or earlier]; comments on the arrival of son Alexander home from a holiday in Norway.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project