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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
28 August 1872
Source of text:
  • British Library, The: BL Add. 46434 ff. 240-243
  • Marchant, J. (Ed.). (1916). In: Alfred Russel Wallace; Letters and Reminiscences. Vol. 1. London & New York: Cassell & Co. [pp. 274-276]
Summary:

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Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8489

From:
Felix Anton (Anton) Dohrn
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 Aug 1872
Source of text:
DAR 162: 210
Summary:

Will call on CD next year, when he will have worked out the embryology of Amphioxus; he believes it is not primitive but a degenerate form of fish. He believes the true ancestors of vertebrates are annelids.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8490

From:
Frederic William Harmer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 Aug 1872
Source of text:
DAR 166: 102
Summary:

Has entered a newspaper controversy with W. P. Lyon [Homo versus Darwin (1872)] who ascribes to CD the saying "natural selection is a kind of god that never slumbers nor sleeps". FWH does not believe CD made this statement.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8488

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
28 Aug [1872]
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 46434)
Summary:

Detailed response to reading of Bastian’s Beginnings of life [1872]. On the whole, it seems probable to CD that spontaneous generation is true.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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