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DCP-LETT-7318

From:
John Tyndall
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Sept 1870
Source of text:
DAR 106: C3–4
Summary:

Sends CD proofs of a lecture he will give at Liverpool. Asks CD to check the part referring to him.

Élie de Beaumont’s remark, in which he requires CD to recant before being admitted to the [French] Academy, is intolerable. "This spirit has much to do with the present condition of France."

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DCP-LETT-7319

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
8 Sept 1870
Source of text:
The Michael Faraday Museum at the Royal Institution of Great Britain, London, reference RI MS JT/2/10/458, spine title: Journal V111A 1858–71
Summary:

CD finds JT’s discourse "grand and most interesting" [On the scientific use of the imagination (1870)]. Flattered by what JT says about him.

He is "a rash man to say a good word for Pangenesis for it has hardly a friend among naturalists".

CD is much struck with what JT says about "pondering" and delighted by his "as if" argument.

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