To Charles Pritchard 12 October [1866]

Letter and/or further information available at https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-5240.xml.

Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 14.

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-5240,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 27 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-5240

Summary

Responds to CP’s sermon. Corrects CP’s confusion of what CD said about eyes of the Articulata with human eye,

and questions applicability of CP’s mathematical arguments about length of geological time needed for evolution.

Agrees he was foolish about the Wealden, now struck from later editions [Origin, pp. 285–7].

Letter details

Record number: DCP-LETT-5240
From: Charles Robert Darwin
To: Charles Pritchard
Date: 12 Oct [1866]
Sent from: Down
Source of text: A. Pritchard comp. 1897, p. 93
Physical description: 4pp

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Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 14.