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Darwin Correspondence Project

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

Footnotes

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.

Bibliography

Descent 2d US ed.: The descent of man, and selection in relation to sex. By Charles Darwin. 2d edition. New York: D. Appleton. 1875.

Haeckel, Ernst. 1880. The history of creation: or the development of the earth and its inhabitants by the action of natural causes. A popular exposition of the doctrine of evolution in general, and that of Darwin, Goethe, and Lamarck in particular. Translation [by Dora Schmitz] of Natürliche Schöpfungsgeschichte, revised by E. Ray Lankester. 2 vols. New York: D. Appleton and Company.

Summary

Suggests CEF read Ernst Haeckel’s Evolution of man [1879] and Descent.

Letter details

Letter no.
DCP-LETT-12630
From
Charles Robert Darwin
To
Charles Eugene Ferguson
Sent from
Down
Source of text
Indiana University, The Lilly Library (Ferguson MSS)
Physical description
ALS 1p

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Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 12630,” accessed on 19 March 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-12630.xml

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