From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
22 Jan [1865]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.304)
Summary:
Criticises Duke of Argyll’s address [to the Royal Society of Edinburgh (1864)] and demurs on Argyll’s "new birth" theory.
Agrees with CL on beauty.
Enjoyed hearing of Princess Royal’s discussion [on Darwinism].
CD’s illness.
CL’s advice on chapter [of Variation] on dogs was excellent.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project