To S. P. Woodward   27 May [1856]

Summary

Thanks for answer to query. "I see … that there is no hope of comparing the same genus at two different periods, and seeing whether the tendency to vary is greater at one period in such genus than at another period."

Inclined to dispute SPW’s doctrine that islands are generally ancient. Doubts that they are remnants of continents.

Letter details

Record number

DCP-LETT-1879

From

Charles Robert Darwin

To

Samuel Pickworth Woodward

Date

27 May [1856]

Sent from

Down

Source of text

Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Special Collections DC AL 1/5)

Physical description

4pp

Contributor

Darwin Correspondence Project[View Ɛpsilon collection]

Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 6.

• Darwin, C. R.
• Woodward, S. P.