From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
26 Sept [1857]
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 54)
Summary:
Agassiz’s superficiality and wretched reasoning powers. But he stirred up Europe on glaciers. Lyell has been working on their effects – testing work of others.
CD believes "Natural Systems" ought to be simply genealogical. "Time will come when we shall have true genealogical trees of each great kingdom of nature."
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project