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To C. E. Ferguson   12 January 1880

Down, | Beckenham, Kent. | Railway Station | Orpington. S.E.R.

Jan 12/80

Dear Sir

If you will read Häckels “Evolution of Man”—if this Translation has appeared in America, or his Schöpfungsgesikter—and my Descent of Man, I think that you will find reference to everything important.—1

Dear Sir | Yours faithfully | Ch. Darwin

1
Ferguson had asked for a list of books on ‘the theory of evolution as relating to man’ (see Correspondence vol. 27, letter from C. E. Ferguson, 27 December 1879). The US edition of Ernst Haeckel’s Natürliche Schöpfungsgeschichter was published by D. Appleton & Company in 1880 (Haeckel 1880). Descent 2d US ed. was also published by Appleton.

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Please cite as “DCP-LETT-12630,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-12630