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From:
Bourchier Wrey Savile
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
27 Sept 1881
Source of text:
DAR 177: 42
Summary:

Finds it difficult to reconcile evolution with Mosaic record, but thinks it does not necessarily involve "infidel" principles.

Asks "How life born of an egg, can evolve life born of a mammal?"

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Bourchier Wrey Savile
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
30 Sept 1881
Source of text:
DAR 177: 43
Summary:

Thanks CD for his reply and, in attempting to clarify his question [see 13358], asks: "how could the first mammal species be nourished, if its immediate progenitor was non-mammal?"

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Bourchier Wrey Savile
Date:
[before 8 Oct 1881]
Source of text:
Record n.s. 1 (1882): 149
Summary:

There is ‘some gradation in perfection with mammals in the mammery glands’. Discusses milk secretion in Echidna. Instances a fish in which the ova hatch in a sack on the male and the young feed on mucus secreted by the sack lining; ‘here … we see what might be the commencement of a simple mammery gland’.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Bourchier Wrey Savile
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Oct 1881
Source of text:
DAR 177: 44
Summary:

Thanks CD for answering his query about evolution.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project