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DCP-LETT-2141

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
15 Sept [1857]
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 137)
Summary:

Thanks for three last lectures and the account of cirripedes.

Difficulty of classifying the higher groups.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2143

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."

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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