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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Samuel Pickworth Woodward
Date:
15 May [1856]
Source of text:
Sotheby’s (dealers) (21 March 1966)
Summary:

Thanks for Supplement to SPW’s Manual of the Mollusca [1851–6]. Praises SPW’s work. "What an amount of labour is condensed in your little volume! … I fully believe & hope that you will reap the only reward worth having, the consciousness that you have done good service to the cause of Science."

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Samuel Pickworth Woodward
Date:
27 May [1856]
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Special Collections DC AL 1/5)
Summary:

Thanks for answer to query. "I see … that there is no hope of comparing the same genus at two different periods, and seeing whether the tendency to vary is greater at one period in such genus than at another period."

Inclined to dispute SPW’s doctrine that islands are generally ancient. Doubts that they are remnants of continents.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Samuel Pickworth Woodward
Date:
3 June [1856]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.129)
Summary:

Comments on SPW’s book [Manual of Mollusca (1851–6)].

Mentions questions he has for SPW [see 1890].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Samuel Pickworth Woodward
Date:
[after 4 June 1856]
Source of text:
DAR 72: 59–61
Summary:

Queries from CD on the distribution of molluscan genera referring to SPW’s Manual of the Mollusca [pt 3 (1856)], with SPW’s answers.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Samuel Pickworth Woodward
Date:
18 July 1856
Source of text:
DAR 148: 378
Summary:

Thanks for information about variability in shells.

Comments on Harvey’s Seaside book [1849].

"I am growing as bad as the worst about species and hardly have a vestige of belief in the permanence of species left in me".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project