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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Albert-Jean (Albert) Gaudry
Date:
17 Sept [1866]
Source of text:
Museo Civico di Storia Naturale, Milan (Library: Fondo Gaudry b. 7, fasc. 28, doc. 1)
Summary:

Thanks AG for Considérations générales [sur les animaux fossiles] de Pikermi [1866]. The observations on the various intermediate fossil forms seem most valuable.

AG does not fully understand what CD means by "the struggle for existence, or concurrence vitale".

Contributor:
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From:
Albert-Jean (Albert) Gaudry
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 May 1867
Source of text:
DAR 165: 15
Summary:

Sends a notice on a reptile intermediate between true Triassic reptiles and Devonian fishes ["Sur le reptile (Actinodon)", C. R. Hebd. Acad. Sci. 63 (1866): 341–4].

Expresses his admiration for CD, and his growing sense that transformation of species is probable, though he does not share CD’s explanation of the cause. He avoids the question, since he lacks requisite knowledge and is convinced that there are causes of which God alone knows the secret.

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Albert-Jean (Albert) Gaudry
Date:
27 May [1867]
Source of text:
Museo Civico di Storia Naturale, Milan (Library: Fondo Gaudry b. 7, fasc. 28, doc. 2)
Summary:

Is much obliged for AG’s two memoirs ["Mémoire sur le reptile découvert par M. Frossard", Nouv. Arch. Mus. Hist. Nat. 3 (1867): 21–40; Bull. Soc. Géol. France 2d ser. 24 (1867): 397–400].

All "inosculating forms" are very interesting to CD.

Agrees with AG on the importance of attempts to affiliate extinct and existing species.

Will send French edition of Variation when published.

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From:
Albert-Jean (Albert) Gaudry
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 Jan 1868
Source of text:
DAR 165: 16
Summary:

Sends an article ["Des lumières que la géologie peut jeter sur … l’histoire ancienne des Athéniens"] extracted from his work [Animaux fossiles et géologie de l’Attique (1862–7)]. CD’s letters have been an encouragement.

Hopes the belief in transformation will gradually be accepted. For himself the idea in no way undermines his idea of spirituality and his respect for human dignity.

Hopes to continue his work on the genealogical relationship (enchaînement) of fossils.

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Albert-Jean (Albert) Gaudry
Date:
21 Jan [1868]
Source of text:
Museo Civico di Storia Naturale, Milan (Library: Fondo Gaudry b. 7, fasc. 28, doc. 3)
Summary:

Thanks AG for his essay on geology and Athenian history [see 5784].

Comments on French rejection of evolution. "How strange that the country of Buffon, Geoffroy and especially Lamarck should now cling to species as immutable creations."

Variation will soon appear in French.

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From:
Albert-Jean (Albert) Gaudry
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 Apr 1868
Source of text:
DAR 165: 17
Summary:

Thanks CD for copy of Variation.

CD’s work on pigeons demonstrates the close relationship between modifications in soft tissues and the hard parts, which are the only ones we possess in the fossil state.

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From:
Albert-Jean (Albert) Gaudry
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Nov 1868
Source of text:
DAR 165: 18
Summary:

Asks permission to dedicate to CD his book on the fossil animals and geology of Attica [Animaux fossiles et géologie de l’Attique (1862–7)]. CD will find much in it relating to the "filiation" of species, genera, and families.

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Albert-Jean (Albert) Gaudry
Date:
17 Nov 1868
Source of text:
Museo Civico di Storia Naturale, Milan (Library: Fondo Gaudry b. 7, fasc. 28, doc. 4)
Summary:

Thanks AG for Animaux fossiles et géologie de l’Attique [1862–7]. Refers to Lyell’s quotation from AG as "one of the most striking I have ever read on the affiliation of Species".

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Albert-Jean (Albert) Gaudry
Date:
19 Feb 1873
Source of text:
Museo Civico di Storia Naturale, Milan (Library: Fondo Gaudry b.7, fasc. 28, doc. 5)
Summary:

Thanks for gift of first part of AG’s magnificent work [Animaux fossiles du mont Léberon (1873)].

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From:
Albert-Jean (Albert) Gaudry
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 Dec 1876
Source of text:
DAR 165: 19
Summary:

Thanks CD for translation of Climbing plants.

AG is at work on Les enchaînements du monde animal [1878]. Will send CD a copy as soon as it is ready.

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Albert-Jean (Albert) Gaudry
Date:
28 Dec 1877
Source of text:
Museo Civico di Storia Naturale, Milan (Library: Fondo Gaudry b. 7, fasc. 28, doc. 6)
Summary:

Thanks AG for his kindness in sending his valuable work [Les enchaînements du monde animal vol. 1 (1878)].

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From:
Albert-Jean (Albert) Gaudry
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 Nov 1878
Source of text:
DAR 165: 20
Summary:

Acknowledges receipt of French translation of Forms of flowers. "No one more than you has made us feel the beauties of Creation and made us enter more profoundly into the secrets of nature."

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