To Gardeners’ Chronicle   [13 April 1860]

Summary

CD acknowledges that Patrick Matthew, in his appendix to Naval timber and arboriculture (1831), anticipated by many years CD’s explanation of the origin of species by natural selection. CD was ignorant of the work. If another edition of Origin is called for, CD will insert a notice to the foregoing effect.

Letter details

Record number

DCP-LETT-2766

From

Charles Robert Darwin

To

Gardeners’ Chronicle

Date

[13 Apr 1860]

Sent from

Down

Source of text

Gardeners’ Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette, 21 April 1860, pp. 362–3

Contributor

Darwin Correspondence Project[View Ɛpsilon collection]

Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 8.

• Darwin, C. R.
• Gardeners’ Chronicle