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From:
Gabriel-Madeleine-Camille (Camille) Dareste
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Feb 1863
Source of text:
DAR 162: 42
Summary:

Has read Origin with satisfaction. He had long ago come to consider the fixity of species as contrary to the facts, but could see no suitable alternative. The Origin has brought the light to guide him.

Sends CD a copy of his latest work ["Mémoire sur la production artificielle des monstruosités", Ann. Sci. Nat. (Zool.) 4th ser. 18 (1862): 243–76]. Hopes to explain a great number of anomalies by his experimental work on artificially produced monstrosities.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Gabriel-Madeleine-Camille (Camille) Dareste
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 May 1867
Source of text:
DAR 162: 43
Summary:

CD’s letter [3992] gave him encouragement in his work [on monstrosities], which, he regrets, is little understood or appreciated in France. Hopes to be able to produce anomalies at will as a result of his experiments. Sends a recent paper ["Rapport sur un veau monstrueux", Arch. Com. Agric. Arrondissement Lille (1867)].

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Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Gabriel-Madeleine-Camille (Camille) Dareste
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Apr 1868
Source of text:
DAR 162: 44
Summary:

Thanks for Variation.

CD must be happy about the tendency toward acceptance of his views, though it is regrettable that France is backward in this regard.

His own work goes slowly, but he still hopes his work on artificially produced monstrosities will help to answer the question of the origin of species.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Gabriel-Madeleine-Camille (Camille) Dareste
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Nov [1869]
Source of text:
DAR 162: 45
Summary:

Asks CD to write a letter sponsoring him for the Chair of Comparative Physiology at Paris. There are some who do not think his work on artificial production of monstrosities belongs in physiology.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Gabriel-Madeleine-Camille (Camille) Dareste
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 Dec [1869]
Source of text:
DAR 162: 46
Summary:

CD’s letter on his behalf made a great impression, but his candidacy nevertheless failed, largely owing to the hostility of Claude Bernard. CD’s opinion sustains his belief that his work will be a service to science.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Gabriel-Madeleine-Camille (Camille) Dareste
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 July 1870
Source of text:
DAR 162: 47
Summary:

Has found a remarkable anatomical character in the niata skull of which he wrote [see 5540]. Asks whether the skull CD brought from South America [at the Royal College of Surgeons] shows the same character. If so, it would provide incontestable evidence of the origin of this race of cattle.

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Darwin Correspondence Project