From:
Charles Pritchard
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 June [1862]
Source of text:
DAR 174.2: 77
Summary:
Has broken up school a few days early to avoid danger. Hopes CD’s son is nearly recovered.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Has broken up school a few days early to avoid danger. Hopes CD’s son is nearly recovered.
Sends sermon he preached at the BAAS Nottingham meeting ["The continuity of the schemes of nature and revelation" (1866)], in which he disagrees with CD on the gradual genesis of the human eye by natural selection.
Responds to CP’s sermon. Corrects CP’s confusion of what CD said about eyes of the Articulata with human eye,
and questions applicability of CP’s mathematical arguments about length of geological time needed for evolution.
Agrees he was foolish about the Wealden, now struck from later editions [Origin, pp. 285–7].
Congratulations on success of CD’s son [George].