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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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Darwin Correspondence Project
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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Darwin Correspondence Project