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DCP-LETT-2581

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Galton
Date:
13 Dec [1859]
Source of text:
UCL Library Services, Special Collections (GALTON/1/1/9/5/7/5)
Summary:

Thanks FG for comments [on Origin].

Acknowledges error involving rhinoceros.

Thinks female fowls select victorious or most beautiful cock.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2582

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
13 Dec [1859]
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 82–6)
Summary:

Sends anecdotes and drawings of pigeons for Royal Institution lecture. Offers parts on hybridisation and pigeons from his MS (if THH has patience to read them).

Has heard George Busk is converted.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2580

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Richard Owen
Date:
13 Dec [1859]
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Special Collections Owen correspondence 9/195)
Summary:

Responds to Owen’s remarks that his book [Origin] is not likely to be true because it attempts to explain so much. CD describes how, for fear this might be so, he resolved to give up the work if he could not convince two or three competent judges. He is sensitive because of unjust things said by a distinguished friend [A. Sedgwick]. Value of his views now depends on men eminent in science.

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